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Glad to hear that you seem to enjoy the site! Happy to try to answer questions if you have any.

boothead 10y ago
Love this! Some of these algorithms are inherently recursive, have you used/looked into a functional language to create them at all?
- inconvergent 10y ago
  Thanks. No, I've been using python/cython because I know it well already. I've considered learning a functional language though. So I'd be happy to get suggestions. Eg. I would choose a language that has a decent community as well as some good tools for drawing/pixel manipulation/3d modelling, depending on what's available (honestly I haven't researched it at all yet).
  - noelwelsh 10y ago
    You've probably seen my tweet already. The current draft of Creative Scala v2 can be found here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8669329/creative-scala.pdf https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8669329/creative-scala.p... The graphics library it uses is here: https://github.com/underscoreio/doodle https://github.com/underscoreio/doodle The source for Creative Scala is here: https://github.com/underscoreio/creative-scala https://github.com/underscoreio/creative-scala Would love to get your thoughts on this material.
    - inconvergent 10y ago
      Hi. Unfortunately I can't dive into this right now. But I'm bookmarking it! Scala sounds interesting to me.
  - boothead 10y ago
    There's the diagrams package in Haskell for vector drawing: http://projects.haskell.org/diagrams/gallery.html http://projects.haskell.org/diagrams/gallery.html Juicy pixels for raster manipulation: https://github.com/Twinside/Juicy.Pixels https://github.com/Twinside/Juicy.Pixels And gloss or haskell for mac as a processing kind of environment: http://gloss.ouroborus.net/ http://gloss.ouroborus.net/ http://haskellformac.com/ http://haskellformac.com/ (http://learn.hfm.io/fractals.html http://learn.hfm.io/fractals.html) There's an old comment thread from a year ago here: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2naug0/haskell_as_a_hobby/ https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2naug0/haskell_as_... I'd be interested to know what you think about the feasibility of using these tools to produce the kind of things you make :-)
    - inconvergent 10y ago
      Thanks a lot. This looks interesting. I'll definitely look into it. I don't think I'm qualified to say whether it is possible at this point, but my guess is that it is very possible!
  - yaw 10y ago
    I've been keeping an eye on http://thi.ng http://thi.ng a toolset in Clojure /ClojureScript that Karsten Schmidt is developing Karsten previously developed http://toxiclibs.org/ http://toxiclibs.org/ for Processing

Love this! Some of these algorithms are inherently recursive, have you used/looked into a functional language to create them at all?

inconvergent 10y ago
Thanks. No, I've been using python/cython because I know it well already. I've considered learning a functional language though. So I'd be happy to get suggestions. Eg. I would choose a language that has a decent community as well as some good tools for drawing/pixel manipulation/3d modelling, depending on what's available (honestly I haven't researched it at all yet).
- noelwelsh 10y ago
  You've probably seen my tweet already. The current draft of Creative Scala v2 can be found here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8669329/creative-scala.pdf https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8669329/creative-scala.p... The graphics library it uses is here: https://github.com/underscoreio/doodle https://github.com/underscoreio/doodle The source for Creative Scala is here: https://github.com/underscoreio/creative-scala https://github.com/underscoreio/creative-scala Would love to get your thoughts on this material.
  - inconvergent 10y ago
    Hi. Unfortunately I can't dive into this right now. But I'm bookmarking it! Scala sounds interesting to me.
- boothead 10y ago
  There's the diagrams package in Haskell for vector drawing: http://projects.haskell.org/diagrams/gallery.html http://projects.haskell.org/diagrams/gallery.html Juicy pixels for raster manipulation: https://github.com/Twinside/Juicy.Pixels https://github.com/Twinside/Juicy.Pixels And gloss or haskell for mac as a processing kind of environment: http://gloss.ouroborus.net/ http://gloss.ouroborus.net/ http://haskellformac.com/ http://haskellformac.com/ (http://learn.hfm.io/fractals.html http://learn.hfm.io/fractals.html) There's an old comment thread from a year ago here: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2naug0/haskell_as_a_hobby/ https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2naug0/haskell_as_... I'd be interested to know what you think about the feasibility of using these tools to produce the kind of things you make :-)
  - inconvergent 10y ago
    Thanks a lot. This looks interesting. I'll definitely look into it. I don't think I'm qualified to say whether it is possible at this point, but my guess is that it is very possible!
- yaw 10y ago
  I've been keeping an eye on http://thi.ng http://thi.ng a toolset in Clojure /ClojureScript that Karsten Schmidt is developing Karsten previously developed http://toxiclibs.org/ http://toxiclibs.org/ for Processing