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163 pointsmaxraz5y ago26 comments

26 comments

jw12245y ago

I played with this for ages in the peak of an LSD trip once... It was quite the experience.

Some other fun "art toys" I like are:

1. https://29a.ch/sandbox/2011/neonflames/

2. https://codepen.io/davidpanik/full/myMrLx/

3. https://codepen.io/jackrugile/full/DGenc

stankot5y ago

Shameless plug, I have made one of these interactive toys as well:

https://neon.muffinman.io/

I fell in love with generative art this year, and it became my favorite thing to do. Neon is the first presentable thing I made.

skulk5y ago

I'll share one of mine as well. It's a 1-d cellular automata simulator that randomly generates rules and tries to use nice colors. Click to see a new one, and the URLs it generates can be shared. However, that is the limit of interactivity (for now, it's actually meant to be a loose clone of Wolfram Tones but that is far from ready).

https://skulk.org/cell1d

thih95y ago

I like how space key also works and how browser navigation is supported so that when I accidentally click too many times, I can use the browser's back and forward buttons to navigate between recent patterns.

My current favourite: https://skulk.org/cell1d/#s22492231 . Is there any way to learn what are the rules for this pattern?

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resu_nimda5y ago

Throwing my hat into the ring here as well:

https://james.js.org/tiles/

The basic mode is a matrix of identical tiles spinning at different rates, creating complex organic motion out of a simple concept. There are two other modes and lots of fun parameters to play with!

monkeydust5y ago

Was researching GA for a business idea recently, here are some of the better resources I found.

A collection of my generative artwork, mostly with Processing in Python mode https://github.com/aaronpenne/generative_art

cutterkom/generativeart: Create Generative Art with R https://github.com/cutterkom/generativeart

kosmos/awesome-generative-art: Awesome generative art https://github.com/kosmos/awesome-generative-art

Programming Graphics I: Introduction to Generative Art | Joshua Davis | Skillshare https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Programming-Graphics-I-In...

jkingsman5y ago

This was sadly so much more immersive when the music and sound were available, but the creator removed them due to bandwidth costs. The sounds are still available if you're willing to decompile the ios app and do some spelunking in the Wayback machine; the code isn't all that hard to follow to get audio reenabled

jnwatson5y ago

Yeah, as it stands, I wouldn't call this "generative". It is just a nice looking symmetrical drawing demo. I think I played with a similar toy in 1987 or so on a Mac Plus.

aaronetz5y ago

This is cool. I once made an app in the same vein [1]. I think that generative/immersive art software has a lot of potential. A large part of making art is enjoying the process, whereas most digital art software is about getting results efficiently.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.woodenclos...

surround5y ago