Show HN: I made a generator of art – Suprematism
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Shane is one of the masters: https://www.shadertoy.com/user/Shane
And of course Inigo Quilez, the site's creator: https://www.shadertoy.com/user/iq
Leaving aside copyrights/licenses/etc, are her creations "exportable" to be used in videogames, films CGI, VFX, etc? For example, this Abstract Corridor (https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MlXSWX), could be used in a videogame just with that piece of code (I think it's C or a variant of it).
It's incredible for me that such piece of art is done only by code - if asked, I would have said that it uses assets and more.
If made a toaster, and it didn't work, can I call it art now?
It probably depends on how much art I have already sold..
My original remark about not feeling intent or structure wasn't to say that the work couldn't be art. You could produce an art-creator that chose a random number, produced that number of graphics in random fashion as we see in the generator, and then destroyed itself: that would ABSOLUTELY be an artistic work in its own right.
My concern is that this is seizing upon some of the trappings of suprematism but without the artistic feeling, which means you could take it up a notch. According to Malevich, Suprematism isn't random: check out the Wikipedia article, look at his white-square and black-circle paintings. He has clear preferences for positioning and size of a single shape, and has executed 'em twice, very similarly. In 'Suprematism' there's a pale circle in pretty much the same position and size yet again, and three narrow shapes positioned to suggest a vanishing point outside the canvas top right. There's occlusion of smaller shapes by larger, occlusion of the largest by the frame (which could be done through drawing shapes in rough order of size of their largest dimension) and a color story that involves mostly warmer colors with a strategically placed, foreground, desaturated blue shape (two, in fact, it's got a tiny echo precisely in the same relationship with the centerline of the yellow shape)
Aleatoric generation is a different sort of art. Suprandomatism? :)
Is there any metric here by which you could judge one of the results as better than the others?
[0] https://yandex.com/images/search?rpt=imageview&url=https%3A%...
This is a really interesting project, thanks for showing it to us!
[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/deko-beautiful-wallpapers/id58...