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hypertele-Xii5y ago· 5 in thread

Looks like a bunch of shapes randomly scattered on canvas. Nothing "generative" about that. Procedural content uses rules to produce patterns; This doesn't.

TaupeRanger5y ago

Perhaps you just aren't thinking hard enough about the rules and patterns of this system. It's absolutely generative. There are pieces, and there are rules. Which shapes show up? How many? How fast do they rotate? How long? What size is the canvas? What color? This is just off the top of my head.

Applejinx5y ago

I don't get a 'why' in any of that, though. It's generative, but there seems to be no purpose anywhere in it.

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fsloth5y ago

According to Wikipedia the main organizing principle in suprematism is feeling, not rules. I don't know how much feeling you can get from rand(), though.

Applejinx5y ago

I don't see any patterns or rules either.

Is there any metric here by which you could judge one of the results as better than the others?

hypertele-Xii5y ago

Some of them by chance vaguely resemble something, which could be mildly interesting. If an artist explored these permutations and selected some, they could be construed as art through intent.

QuadrupleA5y ago· 3 in thread

If you're impressed by this I recommend browsing https://shadertoy.com - some amazing generative art there.

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

1010085y ago

Wow, I didn't know this website and it looks great. I've been browsing Shane's creations and they are mind-blowing. May I ask a stupid question?

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.

friend-monoid5y ago

Its GLSL, and yes, you can pretty much copy paste it.

vort35y ago

Also, UJI:

https://doersino.github.io/uji/

andronov04OP5y ago· 3 in thread

I love generative art and suprematism. That's why I've created this generator. You can export designs to Figma or Sketch, and also save as jpeg or HD video. Yahooo/Yoohoo

codetrotter5y ago

Is there a difference between the SVGs that are exported for Figma and for Sketch? I am on mobile rn or I’d inspect them myself and see

andrefuchs5y ago

Congrats on the launch! Is the code open source?

andronov04OP5y ago

Thanks! Soon I'm going public code to github, yeah it'll be open source

tartoran5y ago

Im missing something, i get 3,4 random shapes.

soheil5y ago

If you search for those images on Yandex it's very interesting how many similar images there are [0]. It's as if a lot of people find triangles, squares, line, ... in different colors with high artistic worth. These also remind me of a type of art which name I cannot recall that I saw in a museum once.

[0] https://yandex.com/images/search?rpt=imageview&url=https%3A%...

lindseymysse5y ago

This looks great! I was in Hamburg and saw a show of Robert Longo, Goya and Eisenstein drawings. I was really fascinated to learn that Eisenstein drew a lot like Malevich. But you can see that sort of diagramatic thinking in both his movies and in the Suprematists around him.

This is a really interesting project, thanks for showing it to us!

jtvjan5y ago

Reminded me of Deko[1]. Used it a lot when I had an iPhone.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/deko-beautiful-wallpapers/id58...

throwawaygo5y ago

They appear to stop when one intersects the center of another or they all pass the point of being able the intersect the center of another. Neat idea.

tonetheman5y ago

Now just somehow generate an NFT for each one of them. Endless money from the crypto fan boys...

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27 comments

20 comments · 9 top-level

hypertele-Xii5y ago· 5 in thread

Looks like a bunch of shapes randomly scattered on canvas. Nothing "generative" about that. Procedural content uses rules to produce patterns; This doesn't.

TaupeRanger5y ago

Applejinx5y ago

I don't get a 'why' in any of that, though. It's generative, but there seems to be no purpose anywhere in it.

1 more reply

fsloth5y ago

According to Wikipedia the main organizing principle in suprematism is feeling, not rules. I don't know how much feeling you can get from rand(), though.

Applejinx5y ago

I don't see any patterns or rules either.

Is there any metric here by which you could judge one of the results as better than the others?

hypertele-Xii5y ago

Some of them by chance vaguely resemble something, which could be mildly interesting. If an artist explored these permutations and selected some, they could be construed as art through intent.

QuadrupleA5y ago· 3 in thread

If you're impressed by this I recommend browsing https://shadertoy.com - some amazing generative art there.

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

1010085y ago

Wow, I didn't know this website and it looks great. I've been browsing Shane's creations and they are mind-blowing. May I ask a stupid question?

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.

friend-monoid5y ago

Its GLSL, and yes, you can pretty much copy paste it.

vort35y ago

Also, UJI:

https://doersino.github.io/uji/

andronov04OP5y ago· 3 in thread

I love generative art and suprematism. That's why I've created this generator. You can export designs to Figma or Sketch, and also save as jpeg or HD video. Yahooo/Yoohoo

codetrotter5y ago

Is there a difference between the SVGs that are exported for Figma and for Sketch? I am on mobile rn or I’d inspect them myself and see

andrefuchs5y ago

Congrats on the launch! Is the code open source?

andronov04OP5y ago

Thanks! Soon I'm going public code to github, yeah it'll be open source

tartoran5y ago

Im missing something, i get 3,4 random shapes.

soheil5y ago

[0] https://yandex.com/images/search?rpt=imageview&url=https%3A%...

lindseymysse5y ago

This is a really interesting project, thanks for showing it to us!

jtvjan5y ago

Reminded me of Deko[1]. Used it a lot when I had an iPhone.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/deko-beautiful-wallpapers/id58...

throwawaygo5y ago

They appear to stop when one intersects the center of another or they all pass the point of being able the intersect the center of another. Neat idea.

tonetheman5y ago

Now just somehow generate an NFT for each one of them. Endless money from the crypto fan boys...

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