Generative code = art

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    p5.js is a client-side JS platform that empowers artists, designers, students, and anyone to learn to code and express themselves creatively on the web. It is based on the core principles of Processing. http://twitter.com/p5xjs —

    You'll probably want/need to implement Conway's Life in a different language than Logo. If it were me I might start with Javascript, particularly using p5.js (https://p5js.org/) Conway's Life is great because I think cellular automata (Life is the canonical example of these) are a powerful way to get a handle on emergent behavior -- the complexity that happens when you do something simple over and over again. Not all generative art has this behavior, but lots does, and I think it's one of the things that is qualitatively different between using computers to make art vs. other tools. You may or may not use cellular automata in your art, but I think getting a kind of tactile *feel* for it can serve you really well and, as a bonus, it's really fun and often pleasantly surprising.

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