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Genuary 2022: Generative Code Art Prompts for a Month

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Re: Genuary 2022: Generative Code Art Prompts for a Month

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Post by dorkwood »

andybak wrote: post #28
twox2 wrote: post #23

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I'm sorry, but you're wrong. The thing is, when folks typically buy art it's either because they connect with the artist, the piece, or the time and place. This doesn't happen very often, even for great artists. With NFTs, there are collectors that are looking at this stuff through a different lens. They are incentivized to collect for various reasons, usually because of the tie-in with investing, etc. I'm a great ex…

I too occasionally like money. Is it possible to see NFTs without the levels of self-promotion I see on Twitter? I really couldn't bring myself to do that.

> Is it possible to see NFTs without the levels of self-promotion I see on Twitter? I really couldn't bring myself to do that.

They're tied together. You need to start thinking of yourself as an NFT influencer, rather than an artist.

Re: Genuary 2022: Generative Code Art Prompts for a Month

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Post by andybak »

dorkwood wrote: post #31
andybak wrote: post #28

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I too occasionally like money. Is it possible to see NFTs without the levels of self-promotion I see on Twitter? I really couldn't bring myself to do that.

> Is it possible to see NFTs without the levels of self-promotion I see on Twitter? I really couldn't bring myself to do that. They're tied together. You need to start thinking of yourself as an NFT influencer, rather than an artist.

Sadly then it's not for me.

Re: Genuary 2022: Generative Code Art Prompts for a Month

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Post by logicalshift »

ubavic wrote: post #11

I always wanted to start with generative art and this seems like a perfect starting place. 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

If Rust's your language, I wrote a library that should be pretty good at 2D things: https://github.com/logicalshift/flo_draw - I wrote it while working on another project (FlowBetween) where I found debugging would be easier if I could just render something on-screen but rendering stuff on screen always required a ridiculous amount of setup.

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)

Re: Genuary 2022: Generative Code Art Prompts for a Month

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Post by jackstraw14 »

andybak wrote: post #4

How refreshing to see a mention of generative art that isn't followed by the mention of "NFTs". It's really spoiled one of my passions and I've had to mute a bunch of people i used to follow on Twitter. 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.

> How refreshing to see a mention of generative art that isn't followed by the mention of "NFTs".

Well, thanks for kicking things off for us!

Re: Genuary 2022: Generative Code Art Prompts for a Month

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Post by [deleted] »

andybak wrote: post #4

How refreshing to see a mention of generative art that isn't followed by the mention of "NFTs". It's really spoiled one of my passions and I've had to mute a bunch of people i used to follow on Twitter. 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.

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Re: Genuary 2022: Generative Code Art Prompts for a Month

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Post by 0xdeadbeefbabe »

adrianN wrote: post #17
andreyk wrote: post #16

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I generally am not fond of NFTs myself, but want to give a counter point - while it's no fun to see artists you like posting a lot about NFTs, it's also great they can now get paid to do art. For established artists this means high purchase prices that (in the thousands, not something crazy) that make being a full time artist viable and acts as pay off for doing it for many years without much of a financial incentive…

I somehow doubt that NFTs provide a sustainable way of increasing the amount of money spent on art. If an artist couldn't make it by selling prints or collecting donations in the past, why would people now suddenly spent more money on that artist's art just because instead of a print you get an NFT?

Cryptokitties explored this, and I suppose the answer is that eventually the market evaporates.

Re: Genuary 2022: Generative Code Art Prompts for a Month

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Post by monokai_nl »

andybak wrote: post #4

How refreshing to see a mention of generative art that isn't followed by the mention of "NFTs". It's really spoiled one of my passions and I've had to mute a bunch of people i used to follow on Twitter. 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.

I for one think it’s a very interesting time for generative art sparked by NFTs. People that I’m following since Macromedia Flash for their digital experiments are suddenly creating NFTs. In the process everybody is motivated to improve their quality.

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.

Re: Genuary 2022: Generative Code Art Prompts for a Month

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Post by iszomer »

twox2 wrote: post #24
scyclow wrote: post #19

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p5 is great! Very easy to learn and has an amazing online editor to get you started immediately. Such a good tool for prototyping ideas quickly. https://editor.p5js.org/

I second p5js. Try Dan Shifman's "The Coding Train" videos on youtube.

I third recommend p5js. If you're looking for more different flavors, try the Awesome Creative Coding page on github to get your bearings.

- https://github.com/terkelg/awesome-creative-coding

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