He does a great job of explaining stuff that seems very hard in a way that is intuitively very implementable.
I've been a fan of his for years and have ported some of his stuff to my own robots...
On generative algorithms
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#22The father of all of this is William Latham.
https://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas01whl/
(or John Conway, but that's another league)
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#23@Anders Hoff, thank you for making your site work just fine with javascript disabled. I really appreciate that.
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#24The father of all of this is William Latham. https://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas01whl/ (or John Conway, but that's another league)
Hard to define a beginning but "The Algorists" such as Roman Verostko, Frieder Nake, Manfred Mohr are probably a better reference for a starting point http://www.verostko.com/algorist.html
Or possibly Lillian Schwartz's work at Bell Labs http://lillian.com/
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#25The father of all of this is William Latham. https://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas01whl/ (or John Conway, but that's another league)
Lindenmayer (born 1925) and Prusinkiewicz (born 1952) are older.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristid_Lindenmayer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przemys%C5%82aw_Prusinkiewicz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Algorithmic_Beauty_of_Plan...
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#26Warning, this series of fantastically written articles on generative art might make you feel very small and sad compared to those who are capable of not only creating but communicating beauty like this. In other words, I highly recommend you try some generative art yourself and see that at its core, it is not that hard and YOU can do it too!
Do you have any recommendations of where to start?
Pick any geometry library in your favorite language and start doing random things.
Create random points, connect them in random ways, create random polygons.
Then start adding constraints like minimum distances, lengths or topological ones like overlap or touch.
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#27Awesome work!
Any one knows why did the author closed the shop?
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#28I wonder if these algorithms have been applied to sound generation....
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#29About half a decade ago I had added a random blot generation to my now-unmaintained-site https://web.iiit.ac.in/~paresh.verma/. I have spent a few hours generating random blots, and trying to interpret them. Adding more structure to it, with an algorithm should make it more interesting and entertaining.
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#30Warning, this series of fantastically written articles on generative art might make you feel very small and sad compared to those who are capable of not only creating but communicating beauty like this. In other words, I highly recommend you try some generative art yourself and see that at its core, it is not that hard and YOU can do it too!
Any idea on what they used to generate patterns like this?
