Chris Woodall's Generative Art Studio

• The Studio
• Tools
  • Music
• Techniques
• Inspiration
• Pieces and Series
  • Random
    • Flow Fields
    • Mountain
    • Color Studies
    • Generative Algorithms
    • Pen PLotter
• Next actions
  • Completed actions
    • Idea holding area
    • Cheat Sheets

Generative Art (and Creative Coding) is a broad term for any computer generated form of art, this could be audio, random, algorithmic, or even mixed media between an algorithm and human input. There are many techniques here and tools. One of the early ones was Processing, which also influenced Arduino (on the embedded side). I was introduced to the concept through an interview with Tyler Hobbs (about his NFTs Fidenza) which uses a Flow Fields

The Studio

Studio Setup

Tools

As an overview there are a ton of programming tools, but the main ones I am interested in are:

• Nannou which uses Rust
• Quil
• Processing
• OpenRNDR

Music

• TidalCycles
• Overtone

Techniques

• Flow Fields

• Probabilistic Color Palettes

• Cellular Automaton

  • Agents or Actors and their interactions

• Pointalism

• Fractal Patterns

• Randomization

• Areas of Negative Space

• Composition Anchor points

• Bezier Curves

• techniques/Space Colonization Algorithms

Inspiration

Inspiration for Generative Art

DMITRY

Tyler Hobbs

This video on GitHub Sattelite is also very nice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdgnRct0_nw&t=12428s

also a reasonable amount of video and music based generative art I would love to get into. Specifically the stuff by Dan Gorelick https://youtu.be/qdgnRct0_nw?t=29068

• Substrate http://www.complexification.net/gallery/machines/substrate/
• Inconvergent: https://inconvergent.net/generative/fractures/

https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/ https://inconvergent.net/generative/ http://www.complexification.net/gallery/machines/happyPlace/

Pieces and Series

Random

• R00_RandomCircles
• R01_CirclesAndTriangles
• R02_BranchingArcs

Flow Fields

• F00_FlowFieldsExperiment
• F01_PerlinNoise

Mountain

• M01_SimpleMountains

Color Studies

• C01_ColorStudy_AddingIndex
• C02_ColorStudy_2dcity
• C03_ShaderExperiment

Generative Algorithms

• G01_SpaceColonization
• G02_SpaceColonization_NodeSizeBasedOnChildCount

Pen PLotter

• P01_PenPlotter_RandomMandala

Next actions

• Attribute management + how to make attributes which have joint probabilities
• Probabilistic Palette which controls the distribution of a color in an image
• Composition improvements (Dense spots around which starting points tend to congregate?)
• Screenshots / Saves should get the name of the piece + seed + date + options (or sizes)

Completed actions

• Play with different underlying flow field representations, possibly look into Perlin Noise
• Make a more generic representation of a flow field
• Build a easier way to generate through using seeds and make a set of images (reproducible from seed once algorithm settled)
• Play with Flow Fields
• auto-screenshots (see R01_CirclesAndTriangles)
• Make it easier to generate from seeds so art is reproducible.(see R01_CirclesAndTriangles)
• Command-line arguments see OpenRNDR#Command Line Arguments

Idea holding area

• Smoke
• Mandalas and generative universes / solar systems
• Spirographs in 3d
• Full terrain generation
• Mountains with simple flow fields inside of them
• techniques/Differential Line Growth
• More dot drawings with more complex flow fields (with more form?)
• Line/box based flow fields similar to Fidenza with collision detection
• Flow Fields with concentrations around the picture and rings around them (kind of 3d looking rings with flat flow fields inside of then
• Line drawing for use with the Sovol Pen Plotter
• Topographic maps + pen plotted

WorkingMemory

Cheat Sheets

• Obsidian and Neuron Cheatsheet