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If you are ever interested in pursuing aesthetic beauty as a developer, you might enjoy generative/procedural art. Tools like Processing[0] are very accessible
by Crespyl 10y ago
If you are ever interested in pursuing aesthetic beauty as a developer, you might enjoy generative/procedural art.
Tools like Processing[0] are very accessible even to those with minimal programming experience, and can be very powerful and fluid environments if you have any familiarity with Java or similar languages (or clojure[1]). It's very easy to iterate rapidly (even some live-coding elements) and have a lot of visual feedback, such that it almost feels more like sculpting than a normal programming workflow.
[0]https://processing.org/ https://processing.org/
[1]https://github.com/quil/quil https://github.com/quil/quil
- RangerScience 10y agoThank you! But not the thing. I don't want to use software to make something beautiful, or make software that is used to make beautiful things; I want to make beautiful code. Does that make sense? (Unless you think the codebases of these projects are themselves beautiful? Then they might be a The Thing)