Interactive Generative Art

#1

Post by maxraz » Wed, Jul 29, 2020, 1:04 PM UTC

Interactive Generative Art
weavesilk.com

Re: Interactive Generative Art

#2

Post by edotrajan » Wed, Jul 29, 2020, 1:40 PM UTC

does anyone know what language is used and how to replicate it via open source ?

Re: Interactive Generative Art

#3

Post by akx » Wed, Jul 29, 2020, 1:44 PM UTC

edotrajan wrote: post #2

does anyone know what language is used and how to replicate it via open source ?

It's just JavaScript. Looking at the requests made in the browser's inspector, most of the code is in http://weavesilk.com/js/site.js

Re: Interactive Generative Art

#4

Post by jrott » Wed, Jul 29, 2020, 2:05 PM UTC

This is the first thing that I've ever used where I thought it would actually be better on a touch screen.

Re: Interactive Generative Art

#5

Post by jkingsman » Wed, Jul 29, 2020, 2:06 PM UTC

akx wrote: post #3

edotrajan wrote: post #2

does anyone know what language is used and how to replicate it via open source ?

It's just JavaScript. Looking at the requests made in the browser's inspector, most of the code is in http://weavesilk.com/js/site.js

It's made in Coffeescript, actually.

Re: Interactive Generative Art

#6

Post by jkingsman » Wed, Jul 29, 2020, 2:06 PM UTC

jrott wrote: post #4

This is the first thing that I've ever used where I thought it would actually be better on a touch screen.

WeaveSilk Classic exists on iOS.

Re: Interactive Generative Art

#7

Post by gsoto » Wed, Jul 29, 2020, 2:08 PM UTC

Pff, this only draws pictures of my mom naked.

Re: Interactive Generative Art

#8

Post by jrott » Wed, Jul 29, 2020, 2:08 PM UTC

jkingsman wrote: post #6

jrott wrote: post #4

This is the first thing that I've ever used where I thought it would actually be better on a touch screen.

WeaveSilk Classic exists on iOS.

Nice I'll have to try it out

Re: Interactive Generative Art

#9

Post by jkingsman » Wed, Jul 29, 2020, 2:13 PM UTC

This was sadly so much more immersive when the music and sound were available, but the creator removed them due to bandwidth costs. The sounds are still available if you're willing to decompile the ios app and do some spelunking in the Wayback machine; the code isn't all that hard to follow to get audio reenabled

Re: Interactive Generative Art

#10

Post by jnwatson » Wed, Jul 29, 2020, 2:16 PM UTC

jkingsman wrote: post #9

This was sadly so much more immersive when the music and sound were available, but the creator removed them due to bandwidth costs. The sounds are still available if you're willing to decompile the ios app and do some spelunking in the Wayback machine; the code isn't all that hard to follow to get audio reenabled

Yeah, as it stands, I wouldn't call this "generative". It is just a nice looking symmetrical drawing demo. I think I played with a similar toy in 1987 or so on a Mac Plus.