Ask HN: Any Artists on HN?

• Blender-Gcode-Import

  11 67 0.0 G-code

  Import G-code from slicer to Blender mesh

• openrndr

  16 818 9.3 Kotlin

  OPENRNDR. A Kotlin/JVM library for creative coding, real-time and interactive graphics

  

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• GeoPattern

  1 1,253 3.1 Ruby

  Create beautiful generative geometric background images from a string.

How to get started with this? I'm not looking into diving into GAN kind of stuff. But need to make beautiful repeated art on canvas for a project. Want to make something like this [1] from scratch.

[1] http://jasonlong.github.io/geo_pattern/

• processing

  456 6,445 0.0 Java

  Source code for the Processing Core and Development Environment (PDE)

  

I'm personally using Quil (http://quil.info/), a Clojure wrapper around Processing. It's a good tool. You can also use Processing (https://processing.org/) directly, if you prefer Java.

Those patterns look very cool, and not that technically hard to technically do -- the artistry is the challenge with those.

Once you get the framework working, you can start thinking about what you want to do. Begin by doing simple things -- graph a plain circle of one color. Then add complexity and randomness.

Feel free to email me (email in profile) if you want more specific advice. (Offer open to anyone people reading this)

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