generative art

Dr. Sabin Buraga

Faculty of Computer Science, UAIC – Iasi, Romania

www.purl.org/net/busaco

generative art

“any art practice where the artist uses a system,

such as a set of natural language rules, a computer program,

a machine, or other procedural invention,

which is set into motion with some degree of autonomy

contributing to or resulting in a completed work of art”

Philip Galanter, 2003

generative art

“Programming is an interface between man and machine;

it is a clean, logical discipline, with clearly defined aims.

Art is an emotional subject,

highly subjective & defying definition.

Generative Art is the meeting place between the two.”

Matt Pearson – http://abandonedart.org/?page_id=567

generative art

“…is about creating the organic using the mechanical.”

Matt Pearson

generative art

algorithmic art

(computer generated art)

generative art

(generative) systems art

“using a pre-determined set of rules

that give rise to a range of

unpredictable results”

Tony Pritchard, 2009

generative art

related topics:

data visualization

&

infographics

generative art

related topics:

human-computer interaction

www.info.uaic.ro/~busaco/teach/courses/hci/

generative art

one of the most common techniques:

fractals

iterated function systems (IFS) L-systems

strange attractors escape-time fractals random fractals

fractalfoundation.org

generative art

one of the most common techniques:

fractals

iterated function systems (IFS) L-systems

strange attractors escape-time fractals random fractals

also, watch B. Mandelbrot, Fractals and the art of roughness (2010)www.ted.com/talks/benoit_mandelbrot_fractals_the_art_of_roughness

generative art

Fractint – a venerable freeware application (since 1988)fractint.org

Easy Fractal Generator – an interactive Web fractal generator www.easyfractalgenerator.com

XaoS – an open source interactive fractal zoomerhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/xaos/

http://www.kevs3d.co.uk/dev/lsystems/

an L-system

generator

using HTML5

www.flickr.com/photos/syntopia/www.flickr.com/groups/fragmentarium/

Fragmentarium – an open source, cross-platform IDE http://syntopia.github.io/Fragmentarium/

generative art

How about several interesting initiatives & projects?

generative art

Processing – processing.orgwww.openprocessing.org

generative art

WebGL – creating 3D graphics in your Web browserwww.webgl.org

http://webglplayground.net/gallery

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DevArt. Art Made with Code – devart.withgoogle.com

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Art from code: Generator.x – www.generatorx.no

other useful tools to be experimented:

Context Free Art – a program that generates images

from written instructions called a grammar contextfreeart.org

openFrameworks – an open source C++ toolkit

for creative codingwww.openframeworks.cc

VVVV – a hybrid visual/textual live-programming

environment for easy prototyping and developmentvvvv.org

generative art

this presentation includes various electronic paintings by Sabin Buraga

www.info.uaic.ro/~busaco/paint/