Show HN: Generative art with ant colony optimization algorithms (opens in new tab)

The first one looks like pictures of my eye taken after my doctor scans it with a light (I suppose that's just an angiogram you mentioned later). Those rasters were my favorite, and I love the artful clarity of complexity you achieved. I came away appreciating emergence a bit more. Interesting how the complexity resisted the contrivance during attempts to press it into shapes! (subscribed to your newsletter)

I most resonated with the "Objects in a git object tree, graphed by ants."

This felt very real or close to real for me.

I really enjoyed it and it motivated me to explore some of these techniques in my own projects!

I'm getting the same. Hopefully it will be fixed when I check back again later.

It might have gone over a bandwidth threshold.

Thank you for the link, this is fantastic! I love the complex interwoven nature of the patterns.

There’s a lot of it happening, it just doesn’t get the most attention. If you’re in NYC there’s a great exhibition on now that includes generative art: https://sfpc.io/sevenyears/

Certainly - you can look at the source for the p5.js port here, which is basically a line-by-line port of the original processing3 simulation: https://github.com/oxling/p5js_ants

The other parts, the rasterization and vectorization, I haven't cleaned up to the point where the source isn't terribly embarrassing! One of the weird things about this project was the code became more of a means to an end than an artifact in itself, so it's littered with a lot of dead experiments, swear words, and so on.