generative-art-in-go VS gg

Based off new code I'm writing, derived from https://github.com/preslavrachev/generative-art-in-go

The code should eventually make it to my GitHub repo.

I will. It would be a shame if it’s not there already. I wrote an entire book using gg alone, so I thought it must something that everyone was aware of it.

Let me start. My name is Preslav and I am a software developer / entrepreneur who has been passionate about generative art since 2011. I first started working with Processing, but discovering Go as part of my work was the thing that rekindled my passion. So much that I wrote a book about it at the start of the year; https://preslav.me/generative-art-in-golang/

A sketch painted by a genetic algorithm written in Go. The learning will make it into a future chapter of my book, Generative Art in Go: https://preslav.me/generative-art-in-golang/

I am working on new bonus chapters for my "Generative Art in Go" book and this part will most likely make it in a future update. Another likely candidate are genetic drawing algorithms (I promise to do a separate teaser on those :))

I’ve recently twittern and self-published a book that I put together entirely in Obsidian: https://preslav.me/generative-art-in-golang/

The author explicitly says:

> You don't need to download any dependencies such as plantUML or Graphviz, which is what most of the tools out there require and what was also my motivation to start this project. go-uml is using a 2D graphics engine written 100% in Go https://github.com/fogleman/gg

So no, this is not a solution for these requirements.

I really like the [fogleman/gg](https://github.com/fogleman/gg) package for image manipulation, it is pure Go and has many functions to draw and manipulate images.

you can try something like: https://github.com/fogleman/gg to create such images from templates

I've always used the GG library for my image processing needs, and I've heard of libvips somewhere before (likely from the Node.js world) but didn't know it had a Go port/wrapper. :) I'll definitely check that out as well

what library are you using? I recommend this one.

Mainly, the standard library and my favorite gg.

Have you been hit by https://github.com/fogleman/gg/issues/85 when writing your book?

It does relatively little, and that's the point! It works really well when you combine it with other packages; I find it plays very well with fogleman/gg, but your objectives may differ. The dev is very responsive and helpful (even if I don't understand their tweets).

That piece of code makes all the magic. With the help of Fogleman library manipulating images in Go is a breeze. Let's check what this is doing:

The base image package doesn't have text rendering functions. It would probably be easier to use a higher level library like https://github.com/fogleman/gg