Generative art ​

This article & p5.js demos are great intros. WEIRD-A, Processing & p5.js are great frameworks.

Josef Pelz, Etienne Jacob, Julien Gachadoat & daeinc are great.

Samila, Alma & Nannou are interesting.

GPU-IO & SwiftyCreatives are interesting.

Links ​

• WEIR-A - System for making generative systems.
• SNEK - Experimental system for writing generative systems.
• On Generative Algorithms
• Inconvergent's generative art
• Generated Space - Various generative art sketches (GitHub)
• generative.fm - Platform for playing generative music in the browser.
• Physarum polycephalum
• Generative Art and Biology: Creating Life Through Computation
• A tangle of webs 3D
• Depth of field
• Components AI - Experimental platform for exploring generative design systems. (Simplex)
• Solandra - Framework for algorithmic art. TypeScript first. Make drawing concepts part of framework. Make APIs for humans.
• Escher-like Spiral Tilings (2019) (HN)
• Creative Coding & Generative Art with JavaScript
• Collection of my generative artwork, mostly with Processing in Python mode
• Generative Art by Thomas Lin Pedersen
• pack-spheres - Brute force circle/sphere packing in 2D or 3D.
• Veit's Art
• alt-AI - Exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and art.
• Machine Learning for Artists
• Plask - Multimedia programming environment.
• Drawing with Ants: Generative Art with Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms
• Ink - Framework for 2D graphics in Go, focused on creative coding, and based on OpenGL. (Code)
• Generative Artistry (HN) (Tutorials) (Code)
• Flow Fields (2020)
• How to make generative art feel natural (2020)
• Generative Hut - Home of generative art.
• Dacein - Experimental creative coding IDE. (Article)
• AI for 3D Generative Design (2020) (HN)
• Awesome Machine Learning Art
• Nervous System - Generative design studio that works at the intersection of science, art, and technology.
• Experiments in generative art (Code)
• Valora - Brush for generative fine art. (Docs) (HN)
• Writing Generative Art (2019)
• Valora's Rasterizer (2019)
• Trianglify - Algorithmically generated triangle art. (Code)
• Generative Art by Eric Davidson
• Generating color palettes using neural nets (2020)
• thedotisblack - Platform for research design on (generative) drawings and videos made with code. (YouTube)
• Sketches (Code)
• Jacob Rus's notebooks
• PATAKK - Does generative art.
• StippleGen - Software that can create stipple drawings and “TSP art,” from image files.
• Code as Creative Medium
• Genetic Drawing - Genetic algorithm toy project for drawing.
• Tilings Encyclopedia | Substitutions
• art-DCGAN - Modified implementation of DCGAN focused on generative art. Includes pre-trained models for landscapes, nude-portraits, and others.
• Guide to help you make generative art using the electrical activity in plants
• Hexagons
• Digital morphogenesis resources - Comprehensive list of resources on the topic of digital morphogenesis (the creation of form through code).
• Random Roads (HN) (Code)
• Generative art sketches
• Shvembldr - Generative artist and web developer.
• Seismic Dreams - Trained GAN on some seismic data.
• Awesome Generated Art
• 100 Day Computational Design Challenge
• Space colonization branching experiments in JavaScript (2020)
• Ricky Reusser's sketches
• The Generative Portraiture of Espen Kluge
• Hyper Glu - Generative artist.
• Generative Art with CSS (2019) (HN)
• Interview With Generative Artist Jared Tarbell (2020)
• Moire Pattern
• Generative Art with Context Free Grammars
• ln - Vector-based 3D renderer written in Go. It is used to produce 2D vector graphics (think SVGs) depicting 3D scenes. (JS port)
• Abstract Puzzles
• Jigsaw Design IDE - Development environment for abstractpuzzl.es jigsaw design.
• Interview with Generative Artist Kjetil Golid (2020)
• Functional Geometry (Code)
• Plotter Mushroom - Algorithm for generating SVG art.
• Generative Book Covers
• Tixy.Land - Minimalist coding environment. Control 16x16 points with a single JavaScript function. (1) (2) (Lobsters) (Code)
• tixyz - Minimalist three-dimensional coding environment. Control 8x8x8 dots with a single JavaScript function. (Code)
• Generative Collective Weekly
• Awesome Creative Coding - Creative Coding: Generative Art, Data visualization, Interaction Design, Resources.
• Automaton - Animation engine for creative coding.
• Olab's generative art
• Recreating the OFFF by Night opening shot in Houdini (2019)
• yyz - Experimental generative art toolkit based on JSX and esbuild.
• Vodka - Creative Coding Environment. (HN)
• Observable & creative coding (2020)
• Callum's Sketchbook (Code)
• Models of Interaction - Catalogue of models of interaction. Part of the trilogy on models of computers/interaction/computation.
• Etienne Jacob's Animations (Code)
• Interview with Etienne Jacob (2020)
• wavegrower's animations (Code)
• Codecember - Create compform (computation form), one sketch a day. (Code)
• na5 art (Twitter)
• Sighack - Explorations with generative art.
• Generative.fm - Platform for playing generative music in the browser. (Code)
• Creative Code-Generated Art (HN)
• Texture, from Nothing
• Generative Art in Go (2020) (Pre Order)
• Tabbied - Doodle with generated patterns.
• Pattern Generator
• chaosbox - Generative art framework in Haskell.
• Tips for Generative Infrastructure and Tooling (2018)
• "A Box of Chaos: The Generative Artist's Toolkit" by Benjamin Kovach (2018)
• Noise Planets (Generative Art) (2021) (HN)
• Automatically Generating Algorithmic Art
• JetBrains Animation Generator (Code)
• Chris Shier's Generative Art
• Starting point for your creative code journey
• Creative Code Berlin - Community for anyone interested in the use of computing skills for artistic expression. (GitHub)
• Fun Programming - Video tutorials to learn creative coding.
• Mutable Gallery - Generative artworks by Heydon Pickering. (HN)
• Sandpit - Playground for creative coding.
• AI Art Generators
• Unknown pleasures - Animated lines using matplotlib.
• Creative Code algorithms & techniques (Tweet)
• Generative Art Finds Its Prodigy (2018)
• Quads - Computer art based on quadtrees. (Web)
• Coding Adventure: Ant and Slime Simulations (2021)
• Physarum Transport Networks - Particle-based simulation inspired by the Physarum polycephalum slime mold.
• Simple formula to create bit fields that look like alien art
• Reflections on Five Years of Making Art Through Programming (2019)
• How I Do Generative Art: In Praise of Netpbm (2021)
• Art Blocks - Generative Content Hosted on the Ethereum Blockchain.
• tiny-artblocks - Starter kit for tiny and robust ArtBlocks artworks with plain vanilla JavaScript.
• Generative Art in Go
• Delaunay Maze Loop Animation
• Solvency - Limited edition series of WebGL artworks. Each artwork is a unique, generative NFT. (Tweet)
• Triangula - Iterative algorithm to generate high-quality triangulated images. (HN)
• Noise in Creative Coding (2021) (HN)
• Making Generative Art with Rust (2021) (HN)
• List of Generative Art Resources
• Experiments in Generative Art - Using Python, Processing, and P5.js.
• Trassel
• PINTR - Create single line SVG illustrations from your pictures. (Code)
• Noise generator
• UJI - Minimalist generative art thing – press the buttons and play with the sliders. (Code)
• Manolo Ide's Processing Sketches (Code)
• generativepy - Generative art and graphing library for creating images and animations.
• I redesigned my site & added some generative art (2021) (Tweet)
• Mondrian Art Generator (Code)
• Subscapes by Matt DesLauriers - Generative algorithm that draws the impression of a landscape from a multitude of possibilities. (Code)
• Javad Tabatabaei's generative art
• Non-Circular Packing (2021)
• Sketching - A Language for Creative Coding
• The Rise of Long-Form Generative Art (2021)
• Integer Circle Algorithm (Minsky circle)
• generative-art-node - Create generative art by using the canvas api and node js.
• The Short Guide to Generative Art & Creative Coding (2020)
• Context Free Art - Program that generates images from written instructions called a grammar.
• Good resources/ideas to start with generative art
• Bauhaus poster generator
• generative-art-opensource - Create generative art by using the canvas api and node js.
• When the Machine Made Art: The Troubled History of Computer Art (2014) (Tweet)
• zig-generative-template - Zig framework for generating png images (single or multiple frames.).
• Creative Coding with Swift
• Generative Utils - Collection of handy generative art utilities.
• Pattern generator with 1300 shapes and 300 dpi (HN)
• Generative Design Code Package (for P5.js)
• Generative Design, Creative Coding on the Web Book
• HashLips Art Engine - Tool used to create multiple different instances of artworks based on provided layers.
• David Mignot IG
• Flora - L-systems sequencer and bandpass filtered sawtooth engine for monome norns.
• Suite of tools for NFT generative art
• Generative Deep Art - References of Generative Deep Learning tools, works, models, etc.
• 7 Days of Code - Monthly social creativity challenge for generating art with code. (Code)
• Generative Art Books
• Creative Coding Notes
• Haxademic.js - Personal front-end JavaScript toolkit.
• Tiny humans - Little interactive sandbox for tiny people, tiny thoughts, and their tiny stories. (Code)
• Tyler Hobbs - Designing NFT Generative Art with a Traditional Touch (2021)
• aRt - R package to create generative art.
• GenerativeArt-SwiftUI
• Cubeverse - Generative, unique and random NFTs of beautiful structures, of different shapes and sizes. (Twitter)
• Magically Rearranging Patterns - CSS Houdini (Tweet)
• genartlib - Utilities for creating generative artwork with Clojure.
• Open source and generative art
• Programmable Pen Tool - Vector graphics editor with programmable pen tools. (Code)
• Samila - Generative Art Generator.
• Create Generative Art with R
• Women in Generative Art Twitter List
• Generative Art Using Neural Visual Grammars and Dual Encoders
• GenArt - Various Sketches written in Python Language for Processing.
• thi.ng - Polyglot computational design tools (TypeScript, Clojure, ClojureScript, C). (GitHub) (Discord)
• Generative Deep Learning Book (2019)
• Nannou/Rust tutorial based on Schotter by Georg Nees
• Escher-like Spiral Tilings (2019)
• Generation of advanced Escher-like spiral tessellations (2021) (HN)
• nightgraph - Interactive, low-boilerplate creative coding platform in Rust.
• WEIRD-A - Generative art in Common Lisp. (HN)
• Volumetric Light (2021)
• Future Alterations (2020)
• Future Alterations and Loops (2021)
• Building an Autonomous Generative Art Collection with P5.js (2021) (HN)
• Generative Art Experiments using Haskell, GHCJS, and Reflex (FRP)
• Grok {Shan, Shui}*: Advent of understanding the generative art (2021) (HN)
• Procedurally understandably generated Chinese landscape painting
• 2D Generative Art Resources
• Building Generative Glitch Art Tools (2021)
• Markov chain based generative art
• Genuary - Generative Code Art Prompts for a Month. (HN)
• Vaporwave Sketchbook
• identity / monogram (Code)
• What is Generative Art?
• "Are we collectively growing an intellect into existence?"
• The performative quality of computer-generated art (2022) (HN)
• Chromata - Generative art tool.
• Drawing generative NFT mushrooms with Three.js (2022)
• Electric Sheep - Crowdsourced Evolving Art. (Code)
• FLAM3 - Cosmic recursive fractal flames. (Code)
• Birb’s Nest Discord
• Creative Code resources for beginners and beyond
• Sketchy - Framework for making generative art in Go.
• List of Generative Art and Live Coding Tools (HN)
• Programming with Escher
• What is this thing called Generative Art? (2022)
• Noon Silk's generative drawings
• GenerateMe - Processing scripts used to generative glitch / art / design.
• Recreating macOS’s Drift Screensaver with Rust and WASM (HN)
• Generative Design Library for Processing 3
• Grok {Shan, Shui}*: Advent of understanding the generative art (2021) (Lobsters)
• Generative Typography, A Primer (Code)
• Generative Art in Processing
• That Creative Code Page - Illustrated catalog of useful creative coding algorithms & techniques.
• Generative art with Leipzig, Quil, and infinite sequences
• DiscoArt - Create Disco Diffusion artworks in one line.
• tgen.js - Seamless texture generator in JavaScript.
• Infinity Mirror HYPERCRYSTAL (2022)
• Chromatlas
• Sketch - Elixir library for creating generative art.
• Ask HN: Resources to learn generative art programming? (2022)
• Fragment - Web development environment for creative coding.
• ciphrd - Generative artist particularly interested in the exploration of autonomous systems from which life-like behaviors emerge. (Twitter)
• Josef Pelz
• openFrameworks - C++ toolkit for creative coding. (Web)
• Beautiful Generative SVG Grids (Code)
• Generative art using Haskell
• Juhani Halkomäki (Twitter)
• Jeff Palmer (IG)
• Jerry-Lee Bosmans (IG)
• Visual Morphology of Vowels (HN)
• Pattern Maker AI - Generate seamless patterns using artificial intelligence. (Tweet)
• Qianqian Ye's Everyday Art Sketches (Code)
• Code as Creative Medium (2021) (Code)
• genart.social - Home For Generative Artists.
• Generative Artists
• Daily creative coding sketches for Genuary 2022
• Experiment with Penrose Tilings and other patterns (HN)
• Pattern Collider - Tool for generating and exploring quasiperiodic tiling patterns.
• Alma - Digital playground for generative graphics.
• Studio Shoji
• Gotoxy Gallery - Random generative art.
• Ojas Shukla's generative art
• Variations Combinator - Real-time generative art tool with openFrameworks.
• Dessins géométriques et artistiques avec votre micro-ordinateur programs
• Particle Simulator (Tweet)
• Ssam - Creative coding wrapper and helper.
• Daily Sketch 2
• RTV - Broadcasting the latest and greatest generative AI, direct to your web browser.
• Canvas And Lisp Magic - Calm down and draw something, in Lisp.
• Void - Toolkit for making generative art in TS.
• gaul - Generative Art Utility Library.
• Nannou - Open-source creative-coding framework for Rust. (HN)
• Watercolor - Dev server for artblocks-compatible projects using p5.
• Performant 2D strange attractors plotter
• Tristan's Digital Art
• SandTable - Create beautiful dynamic art in sand.
• Sketching Racket Art Library Examples
• Alma - Interactive playground for generative graphics. (Code)
• Workshop on color science for generative art and creative coding
• Wassily - API and set of tools for creating generative 2D art.
• QQL - Collaborative experiment in generative art by Tyler Hobbs and Dandelion Wist.
• qqlrs - Rust-based QQL renderer with features and speed.
• Generative Design Template