awesome-generative-art VS genuary2022

This is something that is pretty much whats closest to my heart. The creative coding / visual scene.

Here is a good list.

https://github.com/kosmos/awesome-generative-art

Also… Shaders ! Is a great way to start.

https://www.vimeo.com/nrlnd

Thats my work. All realtime.

One of the better ones I've found is Tyler Hobbes [0].

I recently found the "Bridges Archive" online [1]. It's a goldmine of ideas (I won't link to them but they have tilings, space filling algorithms, multi-scale Truchet patterns and many more).

I favor the ideas rather than the implementation as I already know how to program so you may do better with learning something like processing/p5.js [2].

In terms of raw ideas, I've found Jared Tarbell to be a huge inspiration [3] [4].

I'm sure I'll get lashed on here for the mere mention of NFTs but I've found there are consistently awesome generative art being displayed on Twitter for artists showing their work and advertising their NFTs for sale. One resource that I've found to be pretty consistently good is fxhash.xyz [5] [6]. Looking for #fxhash tags on Twitter will probably give you rich results.

I also have my own NFTs whose source code I've released as CC0 if you want to take a look [7] (none are for sale right now) along with a half assed attempt at making a list of resources for generative art [8].

There's plenty of "awesome" generative art lists [9] as well as many examples and other projects on p5.js [2]. And of course there's always Reddit [10] [11].

Oh and "Coding Train" is deceptively deep, packing complex ideas in a kind of "cutesy" veneer but still managing to tackle topics that run the gamut of easy to incredibly difficult [12].

There's really too many resources to list. It depends on what level you're at. I tend to focus on Javascript and the 'ideas' rather than the implementation so much. If you're starting from a point of learning programming, you're probably better off going through a tutorial or two on how to actually program and then try and tackle some "classic" generative art examples (grids, recursive grides, flow fields, etc.).

I occasionally run into people who have all their experiments on GitHub which might be enlightening [13].

[0] https://tylerxhobbs.com/essays

[1] https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/#gsc.tab=0

[2] https://p5js.org/examples/

[3] http://www.complexification.net/gallery/

[4] http://levitated.net/

[5] https://www.fxhash.xyz/

[6] https://twitter.com/fx_hash_

[7] https://github.com/abetusk/iao

[8] https://github.com/abetusk/iao/blob/main/Notes.md

[9] https://github.com/kosmos/awesome-generative-art

[10] https://www.reddit.com/r/generative

[11] https://www.reddit.com/r/proceduralgeneration/

[12] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvjgXvBlbQiydffZU7m1_aw

[13] https://github.com/anaulin/generative-art

More info about genuary can be found here

For anyone that wants to try this type of coding, I would recommend just to start. Pick your favorite language and just start drawing things. You will often need some thing that you don't know, but you will learn as you go. It often feels like 'hacking' to get result. Coding train, reddit, and personal blogs are perfect starting points. Remember, like any art, it is about process, not result.

BTW: Every January is month of creative coding (https://genuary.art/), so you can join hundreds of other artists in 'solving' daily prompts. I did last Genuary (well not all prompts), and I got some some results that I am proud of (https://github.com/ubavic/genuary2022). That was the first time I coded in Processing.

Check out #genuary on twitter, insta, mastodon and reddit for inspiration. https://genuary.art/

Typeset in Satoshi. Created for Genuary (Daily generative art experiments), and you can find other such loops that I’m creating daily on my IG.

I made this for genuary 2023, the prompt was "glitch art". It was made in Touchdesigner using a glsl-driven particle system :)

Check out the website for the prompts and other info!!

Made for day 18 of Genuary 2022 - http://genuary.art/

Here you go