I'm a generative artist also (https://gods.art). I made a Python starter script for doing generative art: https://github.com/calebmadrigal/truthygraph.py/blob/main/tr..., as well as a web app for making pretty graphs: https://fuzzygraph.com.
Generative art over the years
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#52As someone who makes and enjoys generative music I've always wondered what the parallels were like in the visual and plastic arts. This is cool.
Any recommendations for good generative music to check out? I've always loved the idea, but know of Brian Eno's "Discrete Music" and that's about it.
Eno is amazing but can be a little hard to approach; I like as a starting place Omri Cohen, who has a youtube channel that has both his music as well as a lot of examples on how he makes it.
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#53Guess it's a good place to show off my generative art library: https://github.com/thekakkun/kanoko I use it to generate a new wallpaper every time my computer is booted.
generated wallpapers are my fav
though really i just mean changing wallpapers, like https://satelliteeyes.tomtaylor.co.uk/
my thing is a collection of public city webcams from around my state, that get applied to various displays on a cron. i add noise, saturation, etc. sometimes two displays get such a wallpaper that i find the combination lovely
( this is a top/bottom setup https://i.imgur.com/Xc8RdnW.jpeg )
now, this isn't really generative. but i've imagined and toyed with it. splotches of greyscale, or flip that and only splotches of color
i've imagined embedding secrets, whatever that means
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#54I really like generative art. It's part intellectual ingenuity, part aesthetics. I've only realized later that it had a name, but since I've had my hands on a computer, I've been making generative graphics with code one way or another. First in GWBasic, later in Flash, and more recently in JavaScript. In my view generate art is art created by an autonomous system. The trick is to balance randomness with intent and to…
I'm curious about what benefits having them on a blockchain provides, besides proof of ownership?
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#55One Lab is an Android/iOS app I develop that has quite a few generative algorithms (mostly pixel shaders). You can combine them with the various effects in the app to create your custom generative stack.
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#56I really like generative art. It's part intellectual ingenuity, part aesthetics. I've only realized later that it had a name, but since I've had my hands on a computer, I've been making generative graphics with code one way or another. First in GWBasic, later in Flash, and more recently in JavaScript. In my view generate art is art created by an autonomous system. The trick is to balance randomness with intent and to…
I'm curious about what benefits having them on a blockchain provides, besides proof of ownership?
Generative systems often produce random outputs every time it runs. When run in a browser, an output just vanishes after a refresh and is usually never found again if you haven't saved the PRNG seed.
Using a blockchain, you can store a specific output of your generative system in a way that's definitive and collaboratively agreed upon. If you believe in collecting / trading digital assets, that's a prerequisite for algorithmic systems.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm curious about what benefits having them on a blockchain provides, besides proof of ownership?
Generative systems often produce random outputs every time it runs. When run in a browser, an output just vanishes after a refresh and is usually never found again if you haven't saved the PRNG seed. Using a blockchain, you can store a specific output of your generative system in a way that's definitive and collaboratively agreed upon. If you believe in collecting / trading digital assets, that's a prerequisite for a…
I'm not sure I manage to follow accurately. If you don't save the art you make then it's gone, generative or not. If you do save the output in some way (either by saving the output itself or saving the full information needed to regenerate the output) what is special about doing so on the blockchain vs anywhere else beyond the aforementioned proof of ownership?
One is of course allowed to care about proof of ownership and the method used to do so if they like :). I just didn't follow the response in context of the question of how it's different from doing the same without the blockchain otherwise.
Unrelated: Kickass you're the Monokai author - I still use that today! Have you ever posted a retrospective about Monokai?
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#58Been getting into Rudy Rucker, who was funded by the AutoCAD folks to do cellular automata research: https://www.fourmilab.ch/cellab/.
Autodesk funded some really interesting projects.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Generative systems often produce random outputs every time it runs. When run in a browser, an output just vanishes after a refresh and is usually never found again if you haven't saved the PRNG seed. Using a blockchain, you can store a specific output of your generative system in a way that's definitive and collaboratively agreed upon. If you believe in collecting / trading digital assets, that's a prerequisite for a…
I'm not sure I manage to follow accurately. If you don't save the art you make then it's gone, generative or not. If you do save the output in some way (either by saving the output itself or saving the full information needed to regenerate the output) what is special about doing so on the blockchain vs anywhere else beyond the aforementioned proof of ownership? One is of course allowed to care about proof of ownershi…
A generative system can produce an infinity of outputs. An art platform combined with a blockchain allows you to store a finite number of outputs from the same system definitively without knowing upfront what the outputs would look like. This forces you to think carefully about your system: it should produce interesting works with each iteration. Some people call this long form generative art.
Regarding Monokai, I’ve written some history about it here: https://monokai.pro/history :)
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#60> An early phyllotaxis spiral, circa 2016. What a strange claim. How late is too late to be considered early?
Early work for the author not for phyllotaxis spirals