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Re: Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings

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Post by noduerme »

dpeck wrote: post #45

Does anyone have a good list of resources for people who want to get a get baseline on understanding and implementing procedural generation?

In terms of the drawing aspects, working on SVG or raw canvas drawing each have some drawbacks. If you don't need to output vector files, I recommend PixiJS, which gives you a stage-based display chain on top of WebGL where you can mix free-form line drawing with pre-made sprites. I used to write a ton of procedural graphics with Actionscript, and this has been my clearest path to continue on those projects. Some AS3 drawing code is almost directly portable.

https://www.pixijs.com/

Re: Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings

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Post by FpUser »

dheera wrote: post #32
gregsadetsky wrote: post #29

The same author's "Procedurally-generated vector-format infinitely-scrolling Chinese landscape" is also quite beautiful: http://shan-shui-inf.lingdong.works/ (keep clicking the rightmost arrow)

Yes, Lingdong Huang is awesome! I have that exact one running on a framed eInk display on my wall. I had to make some minor modifications to make it run in NodeJS instead of in a browser, and then generate a raster image to send to the eInk display, but it wasn't hard. I got permission from the author to post my work to Hackaday (with credit to him) which I'll do at some point. I'm actually working on a 3-panel "wide…

>"Lingdong Huang is awesome!"

I looked at his github and yes is is awesome. Thanks for pointing this. Will read a bit more of his stuff.

Re: Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

dbish wrote: post #19

Love the generated art projects. I just want an art ‘frame’ (display with small computer) that generates new art every so often. Put together a few of the various art ML projects into one product for this.

New images, yes; but, new art? Isn't the art of an image imbued by the artist, DuChamp style.

Or, I guess maybe it's like a quantum effect and the art appears when the viewer perceives it.

Don't get me wrong, I too love generative art, conceptually and the outputs of generative algorithms too.

Re: Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings

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Post by chadcmulligan »

dbish wrote: post #19

Love the generated art projects. I just want an art ‘frame’ (display with small computer) that generates new art every so often. Put together a few of the various art ML projects into one product for this.

Have you seen the Samsung "The Frame" range? They really look like a painting, they have art you can display, and I'd guess you could add others to it.

https://www.samsung.com/au/tvs/the-frame/highlights/

Re: Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings

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Post by bigiain »

mikeInAlaska wrote: post #22
dbish wrote: post #19

Love the generated art projects. I just want an art ‘frame’ (display with small computer) that generates new art every so often. Put together a few of the various art ML projects into one product for this.

with a button where you can click it to save particularly genius results that appeal

Maybe.

There's something beautiful about ephemeral things too.

Re: Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings

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Post by jffry »

dheera wrote: post #32
gregsadetsky wrote: post #29

The same author's "Procedurally-generated vector-format infinitely-scrolling Chinese landscape" is also quite beautiful: http://shan-shui-inf.lingdong.works/ (keep clicking the rightmost arrow)

Yes, Lingdong Huang is awesome! I have that exact one running on a framed eInk display on my wall. I had to make some minor modifications to make it run in NodeJS instead of in a browser, and then generate a raster image to send to the eInk display, but it wasn't hard. I got permission from the author to post my work to Hackaday (with credit to him) which I'll do at some point. I'm actually working on a 3-panel "wide…

That's brilliant, and a perfect application for a display like that. Thanks for sharing and I look forward to seeing the 3-panel version

Re: Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings

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Post by dbish »

chadcmulligan wrote: post #65
dbish wrote: post #19

Love the generated art projects. I just want an art ‘frame’ (display with small computer) that generates new art every so often. Put together a few of the various art ML projects into one product for this.

Have you seen the Samsung "The Frame" range? They really look like a painting, they have art you can display, and I'd guess you could add others to it. https://www.samsung.com/au/tvs/the-frame/highlights/

Looks like the right hardware. I wonder if it’s easy enough to change the software though. I don’t want existing art, I want generated art, new for me :)

Re: Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings

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Post by userbinator »

dpeck wrote: post #45

Does anyone have a good list of resources for people who want to get a get baseline on understanding and implementing procedural generation?

I would refer you to the demoscene. (I'm surprised to be the first one to mention the word in this discussion.)

This guy has a lot of interesting stuff on his site: https://iquilezles.org/

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