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When I see this beautiful art, it makes me want to play with Voxeljs. Sadly I'm a developer, so what I make would not turn out so pretty.
by pgz 10y ago
When I see this beautiful art, it makes me want to play with Voxeljs. Sadly I'm a developer, so what I make would not turn out so pretty.
- noelwelsh 10y agoHave faith in yourself! You can go a long way with generative art, which boils down to applying algorithms to build interesting pictures. Building an really good generative artwork requires a lot of work, but the techniques are those of the developer.
- herrherr 10y agoAny hints on where to start?
- lmm 10y agoStart with something that looks a bit like something you might want to make into art. One of the standard fractals, Perlin noise with a fixed seed, anything that's got a bit of randomness to it. Look for a section that's inspiring. Then look to see if you can tweak the logic to make that closer to what you want it to be.
- noelwelsh 10y agoDepends what interests you, but some suggestions: - Google "generative art". You'll find lots of images and you can usually work out roughly how they were made. Try to reverse engineer them and create your own facsimile. - Check out links here http://blog.hvidtfeldts.net/index.php/generative-art-links/ http://blog.hvidtfeldts.net/index.php/generative-art-links/ - Manning have a book here: https://www.manning.com/books/generative-art https://www.manning.com/books/generative-art - GRATUITOUS SELF PROMOTION ALERT! I'm working on book which is part functional programming (in Scala) and part generative art. Current draft is here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8669329/creative-scala.pdf https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8669329/creative-scala.p... Code is here: https://github.com/underscoreio/doodle https://github.com/underscoreio/doodle Discussion forum is here: https://gitter.im/underscoreio/scala https://gitter.im/underscoreio/scala Feedback very much appreciated!
- HiroshiSan 10y agoI don't think it has anything to do with you being a developer...this stereotype has to die.
- vox_mollis 10y agoMaybe. But in all my long experience, this stereotype is extraordinarily accurate.
- archimedespi 10y agoI know several devs who make music. It's not that accurate.
- worldsayshi 10y agoWell, becoming good at anything takes heaps of time. Time spent learning to dev is time not spent learning art. Vice verca.
- danneu 10y agoMight as well say "because I watch Netflix, what I make would not turn out so pretty".
- Aperson4321 10y agoas someone who do both I have to say two things if you see beautiful art and feel a yearning to explore art it probably means you might have some talent for it. the best place to start in my opinion is by learning about colour theory which is one of the fudamentals of visual art, like with programming learning some fudamentals at the beginning saves alot of time in the long run. Learning how to use colours will instantly stop the stuff you make from looking like it is made by a 5 year old, it will make it look at minimum presentable and something you will want to show to other people and that they will react positively to. It is a time taking investment but a very emotionally rewarding one.