Resources

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What is Generative Art?

This website describes generative art and provides some good examples.

·       Do Machines Dream of Creativity? A Beginner’s Guide to Generative Art | The Artling

Description of generative art, including definitions and early examples.  

·       https://www.artnome.com/news/2018/8/8/why-love-generative-art

This has early examples of computer art for inspiration.

·       http://dada.compart-bremen.de/main/about

This website describes early efforts at generative art that relied on physical means of producing it.   

·       https://medium.com/the-link-art-blocks/ab-101-historical-figures-in-generative-art-georg-nees-6b006e62126a

Art critic describes the Generative Art Movement.

·       https://theartling.com/en/artzine/julia-morton-generative-art-movement/

This website has some wonderful examples of generative art, including some that were influenced by Piet Mondrian. Links to R code are included in some cases.

·       https://fronkonstin.com/

Good examples of algorithmic art. The site says the author distributes code for the art in modifiable form, but it’s not clear how to get it. If nothing else, these artworks can serve as inspiration.

·       http://www.complexification.net/gallery/

 

Using R to Create Generative Art

Getting Started with Generative Art in R | by Vít Gabrhel | Towards Data Science

GitHub - cutterkom/generativeart: Create Generative Art with R

Generative Art by Thomas Lin Pedersen · Data Imaginist (data-imaginist.com)

Creating Generative Art with R (caltech.edu)

GitHub - koenderks/aRtsy: An R package for making generative art using 'ggplot2'.

The R package to Create Generative Art – Katharina Brunner

https://github.com/MartinMSPedersen/GenerativeR

 

Using Python to Create Generative Art

https://spin.atomicobject.com/2021/12/14/generative-art-zero-random/

https://www.iceorfire.com/post/generative-art-with-python

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-create-generative-art-in-less-than-100-lines-of-code-d37f379859f/

https://www.generativehut.com/post/generative-art-python-tutorial-for-penplotter

https://simpleprogrammer.com/python-generative-art-math/

https://medium.com/nerd-for-tech/generative-art-in-python-cac561e7f623

How to Create Generative Art In Less Than 100 Lines Of Code (freecodecamp.org)

 

Computer Code for Generative Art

This site has code (C++) and other pages have inspiring examples of generative art.   http://www.artsnova.com/Nees_Schotter_Tutorial.html

Has software for art. It’s open-source software, teaching computer literacy with applications to art. Note that not all examples or applications of this software produces generative art (i.e., no randomness in the creation process) Welcome to Processing! / Processing.org