/r/generative
Generative art refers to art that in whole or in part has been created with the use of an autonomous system.
This subreddit is for sharing and discussing anything generative (including music, design and natural phenomena), but especially art.
GENERATIVE ART
“What do we know of the world and the universe about us? Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with a wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not only see very differently the things we see, but might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, and life which lie close at hand yet can never be detected with the senses we have. I have always believed that such strange, inaccessible worlds exist at our very elbows, and now I believe I have found a way to break down the barriers.”
― H.P. Lovecraft
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(Last updated 24/04/2023)
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We have one! Check it out: it has some write ups, links to resources, a page dedicated to generative art and music tools and a big ol' list of generative artists to get inspired by.
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Each Friday, /r/generative users are encouraged to discuss and post images of:
- Failed experiments
- Works in progress (especially stagnating ones!)
- Unexpected, wacky results from your programs or experiments (happy accidents)
Degenerative Friday is meant to incite interesting discussion and encourage fellow generative artists to try new things. Degenerative art from previous Fridays can be viewed here.
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- Credit the artist if the piece you posted isn't your own.
- To avoid disappointment, do not post AI-generated work here.
- Posts must be related to generative systems.
- Self-promotion is allowed, but it must be relevant and non-excessive.
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Intergalactic Terrain Disintegrator.
Messing around with noise fields in Processing. For more experiments feel free to follow @benerative on instagram.
17:13 UTC
strava run generative
data from strava api + open meteo need to work on camera now
15:52 UTC
Any help getting images out of Python Turtle graphics on a Mac?
I've been experimenting with Turtle (Logo) graphics but I'm hitting a wall with getting image file output. You can save the canvas to a postscript file, which sucks, or I found a library that lets you save an SVG, which is marginally better. Still, what I want is a png.
The problem with the SVG solution is that you need to pre-specify the dimensions of the canvas and I want to let the little turtle run wild, so it often goes out of bounds.
TLDR: Is there a way to get png images out of Turtle graphics without having to specify a canvas size before running the algorithm?
14:44 UTC
fxhash -> youtube radio channel
I recently converted one of my generative animations from fxhash into a youtube livestream complete with music (from the youtube audio library, but still good stuff). With 200 billion variations my generative piece "plaid-waves.gif" provides an ever-lasting ever-unique stream of eye candy (imho).
It's currently running on a raspberry pi 5 with obs capturing from a "controller" window where I feed in new animations and fade them in. All automatic! I am right at the limit of what the pi can do without further performance tweaks. I turned off the music labeling (attribution not required thankfully) to save an extra frame here and there. But I may move to an old desktop where I should get more headroom.
Here's a taste of one of the outputs from this work:
https://i.redd.it/bvk7yh5vsb5e1.gif
If that intrigues you please give the live stream a look/listen. A thumbs up would help a bunch. Cheers! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1_M8hhjL6c
01:08 UTC
Hydrothermal Vent Cities (p5.js, noise)
22:22 UTC
"sea race" (kotlin, skiko)
21:59 UTC
Breathing
20:08 UTC
Reactive procedural alien artefacts
Trying something a bit different with this one - 3D shapes with reactive layers of noise
Track is Pulse XIV by Peverelist
20:06 UTC
Bands and squares
09:17 UTC
glassy something
23:03 UTC
binary_wave
17:47 UTC
sined glass
13:27 UTC
The Winds Of Change (p5)
13:10 UTC
audioreactive visuals in pure data
11:18 UTC
Attempt at a fluid sim, something went wrong.
10:55 UTC
funkyvector.com/#/home/design:aristotle,64233480
03:14 UTC
Hana
Visual made in Touchdesigner
🎵 // Eiko Ishibashi - Evil Does Not Exist
https://www.instagram.com/gi__o.h
✌🏼🖤
03:12 UTC
I'm just curious, would anyone in this space want to sell their generative art as physical prints?
There are a lot of NFT artists in this space but I rarely ever see anyone sell a print, and I personally would love to buy prints!
I was thinking it would be a fun side project for me to create a tool that lets generative artists generate a shareable link to let others view and purchase their work as prints. I'm trying to get a sense for whether or not there might be any interest? It would be free to you, and I would take like 10% of each print.
It could work like so:
- You upload your sketch code, configure some settings like price/paper/size, & generate a link
- You share link on Twitter/X/etc
- Customer clicks link and views your work
- If they like it, they can purchase a print. If its an animation, they can pick a specific frame.
Something very lightweight and simple. Thoughts?
01:06 UTC
crosshatching
15:34 UTC
Tangential Origami
10:50 UTC
Neural Automata
10:05 UTC
Only Dots
08:37 UTC
Video to ASCII (open source, python) Windows
03:05 UTC
Rhythm streak
21:45 UTC
Bubbly bubbles
20:25 UTC
3D Art Project with React Three Fiber
18:56 UTC
Symmetry it is!
04:51 UTC