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Awesome thanks. Looking for more references if anyone has them. Also if there's any work combining things like this with genetic algorithms?

by siavosh 10y ago

eggy 10y ago
Today, I like to use Extempore [1], a self-contained, physical computing environment with a Scheme-like language and another that compiles to be as fast as C based upon an LLVM backend. You can code audio and visuals all in Lispy goodness within Emacs. Processing is still cool, and there is a JavaScript version available and lots of books and online examples. It really kicked it off for me [2]. The term 'Creative Coding' seems to be the one that is sticking and encompassing the widely different approaches to creating art with code and computers and other electronic interfaces and devices. Very exciting time for this field right now. Livecoding is another term you'll hear for creating mostly music live in code, with some still doing visuals [3]. Fluxus was a favorite of mine [4]. openFrameworks, a C++ toolkit has a lot of libraries, including ML and AI stuff, to try out a bunch of different things [5]. There are examples of people using GA (Genetic Algorithms), ANNs (Artificial Neural Networks), GP (Genetic Programming), MCMC (Markov Chain Monte Carlo) methods and more to create artworks, visual, audio or mixed. The Nature of Code and some YouTube Videos for SuperCollider and other creative coding software touch upon some of this, but you need to Google for specific examples, since people are using them all over the place. My first exposure was a Java Applet where people would look at a generated artwork and hit +1, 0, -1, for like, neutral, dislike, and the applet purportedly used a genetic algorithm to make a new piece. The piece would evolve with the user being the fitness function by participating in judging the pieces. I am playing with Darknet, a C-based CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) that can utilize the GPU, and also work with OpenCV [6]. You can use it to generate text based upon famous writer samples, or recognize objects in an image or video. [1] extempore.moso.com.au [2] https://processing.org/ https://processing.org/ [3] toplap.org [4] http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/ http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/ [5] http://openframeworks.cc/ http://openframeworks.cc/ [6] http://pjreddie.com/darknet/ http://pjreddie.com/darknet/
kimburgess 10y ago
Scott Draves has been running a distributed generative art project since last century (1999): http://electricsheep.org/ http://electricsheep.org/ or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Sheep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Sheep for a quick summary. As well as using a pretty interesting fractal algorithm for the content it uses a genetic algorithm for filtering of results and progression. He posts everything to GitHub too if you're interested: https://github.com/scottdraves/electricsheep https://github.com/scottdraves/electricsheep https://github.com/scottdraves/flam3 https://github.com/scottdraves/flam3

Awesome thanks. Looking for more references if anyone has them. Also if there's any work combining things like this with genetic algorithms?

by siavosh 10y ago

Awesome thanks. Looking for more references if anyone has them. Also if there's any work combining things like this with genetic algorithms?

eggy 10y ago

Today, I like to use Extempore [1], a self-contained, physical computing environment with a Scheme-like language and another that compiles to be as fast as C based upon an LLVM backend. You can code audio and visuals all in Lispy goodness within Emacs. Processing is still cool, and there is a JavaScript version available and lots of books and online examples. It really kicked it off for me [2]. The term 'Creative Coding' seems to be the one that is sticking and encompassing the widely different approaches to creating art with code and computers and other electronic interfaces and devices. Very exciting time for this field right now. Livecoding is another term you'll hear for creating mostly music live in code, with some still doing visuals [3]. Fluxus was a favorite of mine [4]. openFrameworks, a C++ toolkit has a lot of libraries, including ML and AI stuff, to try out a bunch of different things [5]. There are examples of people using GA (Genetic Algorithms), ANNs (Artificial Neural Networks), GP (Genetic Programming), MCMC (Markov Chain Monte Carlo) methods and more to create artworks, visual, audio or mixed. The Nature of Code and some YouTube Videos for SuperCollider and other creative coding software touch upon some of this, but you need to Google for specific examples, since people are using them all over the place. My first exposure was a Java Applet where people would look at a generated artwork and hit +1, 0, -1, for like, neutral, dislike, and the applet purportedly used a genetic algorithm to make a new piece. The piece would evolve with the user being the fitness function by participating in judging the pieces. I am playing with Darknet, a C-based CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) that can utilize the GPU, and also work with OpenCV [6]. You can use it to generate text based upon famous writer samples, or recognize objects in an image or video. [1] extempore.moso.com.au [2] https://processing.org/ https://processing.org/ [3] toplap.org [4] http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/ http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/ [5] http://openframeworks.cc/ http://openframeworks.cc/ [6] http://pjreddie.com/darknet/ http://pjreddie.com/darknet/

kimburgess 10y ago

Scott Draves has been running a distributed generative art project since last century (1999): http://electricsheep.org/ http://electricsheep.org/ or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Sheep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Sheep for a quick summary. As well as using a pretty interesting fractal algorithm for the content it uses a genetic algorithm for filtering of results and progression. He posts everything to GitHub too if you're interested: https://github.com/scottdraves/electricsheep https://github.com/scottdraves/electricsheep https://github.com/scottdraves/flam3 https://github.com/scottdraves/flam3