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Learning Creative Coding

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Re: Learning Creative Coding

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If someone gave me an ice cream cone and said "this is 99% ice cream and 1% cow shit", that would be a fair disclaimer. I still wouldn't lick it.

I used AI to do a lot of stress testing and to see what patterns fall out of the setting rule I wrote. Helped a lot with grammar checking and general editing. Brainstorming too. When you write enough materials, the AI generated output started becoming less generic and actually interesting. Really cool. Still wouldn't use the generated output. The ideas, yes, but not the words. I write every single word. It's not a sh…

Good for you. However I will be avoiding the consumption of your work on those grounds.

Re: Learning Creative Coding

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How sad. "Creative coding" was supposed to be one of the last respites we programmers had from the sloppotron.

Have you looked at other forms of art like images, videos, and music? AI workflows have been incorporated into make such art too.

I've found that AI "art" makes human-created art—even if bad—look more refreshing.

Re: Learning Creative Coding

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Anyone know what "expressive" means here? Also, you could have provided a link to the wikipedia article this is from.

Art. Creative coding is creating art, be that visual art or music.

Art is always left undefined. This is a feature, not a bug.
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