Rather than sticking to one or two of the prompts, I have been mixing together 3 at a time like "sequenced melody of a major+minor connected with white noise."
I really enjoy the results.[1]
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/synthesizers/comments/rssia1/jamuar... [1]https://imgur.com/a/gVlzlUG
Question for people that already do generative art: what library (framework) do you recommend? I know a little bit about GLSL but I know it is limiting in some cases
It has some nice options for feeding its own output back into itself as it uses streams rather than callbacks so it's quite good for procedural rendering type tasks (the 'Wibble' example is a good place to start with that)
For a code-based approach, I spent the weekend trying different permutations of Processing and settled on writing p5.js in VSCode. It's easy to set up, you can use vim bindings, and you can copy+paste your code into openprocessing.org if you want to share it (if it's interactive, for example).
Alex Martinelli does some really cool stuff with cellular automata and I'd love to be able to get similar results in blender.
An addon that existed before geo nodes and did similar things, animation nodes, does actually let you write free-form python in the node tree since it was written as an addon. It is very slow compared to geometry nodes though, especially when dealing with lots of objects.
Ouch. I really hope that changes.
> An addon that existed before geo nodes and did similar things, animation nodes, does actually let you write free-form python in the node tree since it was written as an addon. It is very slow compared to geometry nodes though, especially when dealing with lots of objects.
I would like a situation where I can choose to trade speed for easy customization without switching to an entirely different system. I really hope they add scriptable geometry nodes. I just know for a fact that a node system without an escape hatch will be too limiting (and writing C++ is less than ideal and not viable at all if it requires a full recompilation of the app)
https://natureofcode.com/book/ https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCodingTrain
https://www.amazon.com/Generative-Design-Visualize-Program-J...
I'm not especially zealous against NFTs (more bored than I am repulsed) but it's just unspeakable boring for an entire field to turn into a sales pitch.
The demo scene this is not anymore. It used to be about fun, experimentation and showing off mad coding (and lately ml) skills. Now it's a pyramid scheme. I'm unsubscribing.
Or maybe I'm just getting old
I’m not entirely convinced it’s sustainable either, but I can absolutely see why right now some artists are able to make massively more from NFTs than they could from prints.
I'm a great example - I've been doing art for almost 20 years and have made a few hundred bucks here and there selling prints, paintings, having art shows, etc.
In 2021, I made about 2x what I make from my tech job selling NFTs. I consider myself lucky, but at the same time, there are thousands like me.
PS I'm not exactly rich as a grad student, so I've just spent about $100 so far. No idea if any of what I bought can be re sold, maybe I'll look sometime.
https://twitter.com/search?q=generative+music&src=typed_quer...
(But if you search for stochastic music you find almost nothing).
Yes, there are some annoying effects as well, the shilling and hyper speculation. But overall I’ve seen an amazing output of interesting works last year. Some of the recent works of Genuary that I’m seeing are really interesting.
Well, thanks for kicking things off for us!
