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Tiny Art in Less Than 280 Characters (2017)

122 points by elsherbini 9y ago

verytrivial 9y ago
Reminds me of the SuperCollider audio "album" of tracks encoded under the old 140 character limit. I still often use this for coding background music. https://supercollider.github.io/community/sc140 https://supercollider.github.io/community/sc140
- Jeff_Brown 9y ago
  These are amazing.
- inostia 9y ago
  Very cool
  - verytrivial 9y ago
    I have just noticed that at archive.org the track names are in fact the entire source definition of the track. Ha!
- sincerely 9y ago
  If you like this type of music, you should check out the (horribly-named) genre IDM for some slightly longer tracks - some standouts are Aphex Twin, Autechre, and Venetian Snares
- jakeogh 9y ago
  :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWblpsLZ-O8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWblpsLZ-O8
simlevesque 9y ago
They are using external libraries... I can't tell if it's a joke but if it's not then no, you didn't do it in less than 280 characters. Otherwise I can generate the mona lisa with 3 characters: m()
- delinhabit 9y ago
  3 characters is still less than 280, right? It doesn't look like you're contradicting their claim in any way. Could you elaborate a little bit more. I'm not sure I understand your point.
  - leggomylibro 9y ago
    I think they mean that libraries like 'ggplot2' and 'dplyr' and 'TurtleGraphics' use a LOT more than 280 lines of code. When people see 'small code generates pretty graphics', they usually don't equate that to, 'a library was used as intended.' They think of projects that use math in interesting ways to wring unexpected results out of very limited conditions. Stuff like this: http://www.ozone3d.net/tutorials/intro_demoscene.php http://www.ozone3d.net/tutorials/intro_demoscene.php It's cool and fun to graph mathematical patterns, but it does seem a little disingenuous to call it "Tiny Art".
    - platz 9y ago
      it's tiny because it can be expressed in a tiny respresentation
      - everyone 9y ago
        Ive just come up with a symbol that represents the entire collection of the Louvre.
        platz 9y ago
        That is a symbol with 0 re-use and therefore 0 abstraction. That is much less interesting than a represtentation that can generalize across a wide range of uses
        gonvaled 9y ago
        No no, it is actually extremely flexible and reusable: draw("louvre") It has support for lots of collections.
berbec 9y ago
New category for IOCCC: 'Tweetable'?
yesenadam 9y ago
That's a great site, thanks. It's not common finding such artistic taste, programming/mathematical skill, and capacity to explain well, in the same person.
dzaragozar 9y ago
The (2017) tag adds very little to the title...
bla2 9y ago
If you like this, you'll like https://www.dwitter.net https://www.dwitter.net
- ateesdalejr 9y ago
  Yes! I've seen dwitter too! Some of the things made there are simply amazing. Of those being the conway's game of life simulations!
Lerc 9y ago
If 280 characters is way too bloated (and you love reverse polish notation (and who doesn't)) you can try stackie https://github.com/Lerc/stackie https://github.com/Lerc/stackie image viewer http://fingswotidun.com/stackie/?code=yx%2F1%3Cx!-~&palette=xy4*p1%2B2%2Fx*q http://fingswotidun.com/stackie/?code=yx%2F1%3Cx!-~&palette=... or images directly served from url code http://stackie.fingswotidun.com/yx%2F1%3Cx!-~xy8wxy99*w+9/+&xy*x+e http://stackie.fingswotidun.com/yx%2F1%3Cx!-~xy8wxy99*w+9/+&...
hawktheslayer 9y ago
I am a huge fan of Wilkinson's Grammar of Graphics and Hadley's implementation of them in ggplot2. Thanks for sharing this; it helps demo the power of the grammar. Since learning GG it has made me think of plotting in an additive fashion instead of before when Excel would do most of it for me and I would often be forced to remove layers I didn't need.
bernardino 9y ago
I love this! Do you think it's worth learning just to make art? If so, where do I start?
scoopr 9y ago
In the same general spirit, check bytebeats! http://countercomplex.blogspot.fi/2011/10/algorithmic-symphonies-from-one-line-of.html http://countercomplex.blogspot.fi/2011/10/algorithmic-sympho... http://canonical.org/%7Ekragen/bytebeat/ http://canonical.org/%7Ekragen/bytebeat/

122 points by elsherbini 9y ago

Reminds me of the SuperCollider audio "album" of tracks encoded under the old 140 character limit. I still often use this for coding background music. https://supercollider.github.io/community/sc140 https://supercollider.github.io/community/sc140

Jeff_Brown 9y ago
These are amazing.
inostia 9y ago
Very cool
- verytrivial 9y ago
  I have just noticed that at archive.org the track names are in fact the entire source definition of the track. Ha!
sincerely 9y ago
If you like this type of music, you should check out the (horribly-named) genre IDM for some slightly longer tracks - some standouts are Aphex Twin, Autechre, and Venetian Snares
jakeogh 9y ago
:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWblpsLZ-O8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWblpsLZ-O8

simlevesque 9y ago

They are using external libraries... I can't tell if it's a joke but if it's not then no, you didn't do it in less than 280 characters. Otherwise I can generate the mona lisa with 3 characters: m()

delinhabit 9y ago
3 characters is still less than 280, right? It doesn't look like you're contradicting their claim in any way. Could you elaborate a little bit more. I'm not sure I understand your point.
- leggomylibro 9y ago
  I think they mean that libraries like 'ggplot2' and 'dplyr' and 'TurtleGraphics' use a LOT more than 280 lines of code. When people see 'small code generates pretty graphics', they usually don't equate that to, 'a library was used as intended.' They think of projects that use math in interesting ways to wring unexpected results out of very limited conditions. Stuff like this: http://www.ozone3d.net/tutorials/intro_demoscene.php http://www.ozone3d.net/tutorials/intro_demoscene.php It's cool and fun to graph mathematical patterns, but it does seem a little disingenuous to call it "Tiny Art".
  - platz 9y ago
    it's tiny because it can be expressed in a tiny respresentation
    - everyone 9y ago
      Ive just come up with a symbol that represents the entire collection of the Louvre.
      - platz 9y ago
        That is a symbol with 0 re-use and therefore 0 abstraction. That is much less interesting than a represtentation that can generalize across a wide range of uses
        gonvaled 9y ago
        No no, it is actually extremely flexible and reusable: draw("louvre") It has support for lots of collections.

berbec 9y ago

New category for IOCCC: 'Tweetable'?

yesenadam 9y ago

That's a great site, thanks. It's not common finding such artistic taste, programming/mathematical skill, and capacity to explain well, in the same person.

dzaragozar 9y ago

The (2017) tag adds very little to the title...

bla2 9y ago

If you like this, you'll like https://www.dwitter.net https://www.dwitter.net

ateesdalejr 9y ago
Yes! I've seen dwitter too! Some of the things made there are simply amazing. Of those being the conway's game of life simulations!

Lerc 9y ago

If 280 characters is way too bloated (and you love reverse polish notation (and who doesn't)) you can try stackie https://github.com/Lerc/stackie https://github.com/Lerc/stackie image viewer http://fingswotidun.com/stackie/?code=yx%2F1%3Cx!-~&palette=xy4*p1%2B2%2Fx*q http://fingswotidun.com/stackie/?code=yx%2F1%3Cx!-~&palette=... or images directly served from url code http://stackie.fingswotidun.com/yx%2F1%3Cx!-~xy8wxy99*w+9/+&xy*x+e http://stackie.fingswotidun.com/yx%2F1%3Cx!-~xy8wxy99*w+9/+&...

hawktheslayer 9y ago

I am a huge fan of Wilkinson's Grammar of Graphics and Hadley's implementation of them in ggplot2. Thanks for sharing this; it helps demo the power of the grammar. Since learning GG it has made me think of plotting in an additive fashion instead of before when Excel would do most of it for me and I would often be forced to remove layers I didn't need.

bernardino 9y ago

I love this! Do you think it's worth learning just to make art? If so, where do I start?

scoopr 9y ago

In the same general spirit, check bytebeats! http://countercomplex.blogspot.fi/2011/10/algorithmic-symphonies-from-one-line-of.html http://countercomplex.blogspot.fi/2011/10/algorithmic-sympho... http://canonical.org/%7Ekragen/bytebeat/ http://canonical.org/%7Ekragen/bytebeat/