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Re: Making Generative Art with Rust

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Post by erwinh » Sat, May 01, 2021, 7:59 AM UTC

Great to see a movement arising where art/tech starts to hopefully grow closer together with a new generation of generative artists. Reading Isaacsons Da Vinci biography. Even in his time there was a bit of a split between science and art, but also a lot of collaboration in the science of anatomy. In our time I think we still need more merging of art with computer science, complexity science etc!

Quick plug of my own generative work: https://hyperobjects.design/gallery

Click through to the individual artwork pages for links to access the source code for every work and run it directly in the browser.

Re: Making Generative Art with Rust

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Post by pacificat0r » Sat, May 01, 2021, 11:24 AM UTC

erwinh wrote: post #11

Great to see a movement arising where art/tech starts to hopefully grow closer together with a new generation of generative artists. Reading Isaacsons Da Vinci biography. Even in his time there was a bit of a split between science and art, but also a lot of collaboration in the science of anatomy. In our time I think we still need more merging of art with computer science, complexity science etc! Quick plug of my own…

It looks super nice. What's that framework that you use for your art?

Re: Making Generative Art with Rust

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Post by erwinh » Sat, May 01, 2021, 3:07 PM UTC

pacificat0r wrote: post #12

erwinh wrote: post #11

Great to see a movement arising where art/tech starts to hopefully grow closer together with a new generation of generative artists. Reading Isaacsons Da Vinci biography. Even in his time there was a bit of a split between science and art, but also a lot of collaboration in the science of anatomy. In our time I think we still need more merging of art with computer science, complexity science etc! Quick plug of my own…

It looks super nice. What's that framework that you use for your art?

https://hyperobjects.design/workbench

Developing this creative-coding tool myself that renders to SVG/Canvas!

Re: Making Generative Art with Rust

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Post by anaerobicover » Sat, May 01, 2021, 8:47 PM UTC

In the GitHub video you said "you should never use π" (to use τ instead), an interesting comment. What is the reasoning for saying so?

Re: Making Generative Art with Rust

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Post by MacTuitui » Sun, May 02, 2021, 6:29 AM UTC

anaerobicover wrote: post #14

In the GitHub video you said "you should never use π" (to use τ instead), an interesting comment. What is the reasoning for saying so?

That was an obscure reference to https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto and others 'tauist' beliefs.

But really, it's more of a 'well most of the time it's 2π' so maybe it makes sense to use the constant that represents that number, and since we're talking about small details, '2.0*PI' is also longer than 'TAU' to type.