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Generative Art 2019 Mon, 30 Dec 2019

genart summary

This year I continued to explore generative art. Unfortunately, not that much as I wanted. At the beginning of the year I was making at least one sketch every day. Then once a week, then once in a while. However, here are some results to remind myself that I need to commit more efforts next year.

  • Built the second version of my generative art toolkit as a wrapper for p5.js. First one from 2018 was built as a wrapper around the Java Processing library and lacks a very important feature: quick feedback. So, I used Kotlin/JS technology for compiling Kotlin code into a js file that was hot-reloaded in a browser. This system meant to be experimental just to start hacking and doing art.

  • The third version was built as a library agnostics toolkit for generative art with the sketch-as-a-data approach and client-server implementation to fake hot-reload. The new tool is decomposed into different modules so it'll be easier to change and/or refactor them one-by-one. JVM-only environment is supported for now, but in 2020 I have plans to extend it to Kotlin Multiplatform.

  • Dared to publish two works on /r/generative (one of them was used as a subreddit banner for December, yay!) and on my Twitter.

Here are some highlights:

':: punched_card ::' (October)

:: punched_card :: 1000x1000

:: punched_card :: 1000x1000 | 4000x4000

:: punched_card :: 1000x1000

Social links: Reddit | Twitter
Quick port to p5.js: Gist | Try online

':: you_are_not_alone ::' (November)

  • Somebody gifted me a Reddit gold for this.
  • /u/kritzikratzi pointed me that this sketch looks like some Vera Molnar works. I read more about the artist and decided to call the new version of my toolkit "Vera" as a tribute to Vera Molnar's works.

:: you_are_not_alone :: 4096x4096

:: you_are_not_alone :: 4096x4096

:: you_are_not_alone :: 4096x4096

After seeing Vela Molnar works I've decided to add colors to my sketch as well.

:: you_are_not_alone (in color) :: 4096x4096

:: you_are_not_alone (in color) :: 4096x4096

Social links: Reddit | Twitter

'Metro' (January)

metro 1000x1000

metro 1000x1000

metro 1000x1000

metro 1000x1000

'Halo' (January)

halo 1000x1000

halo 1000x1000

'Dance' (January)

dance 1000x1000

dance 1000x1000

Misc (January)

Some selected sketches that I've found interesting/enjoying.

Holiday:

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Retro:

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Queerish:

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Serious:

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Bored:

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Japaneese Seeds:

misc 1000x1000

misc 1000x1000

Foggish and dirty:

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Lifelines:

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'Pale Blue Dot' (January)

Actually, not a finished/enjoyable one but I'm including it as a reminder for myself to work on it in this year.

pale blue dot 1000x1000

pale blue dot 1000x1000

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