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I know art is whatever people describe as art but I can't really get behind this specific kind of creation. To me this creates as much emotion as a gravatar and

by yoz-y 8y ago

I know art is whatever people describe as art but I can't really get behind this specific kind of creation. To me this creates as much emotion as a gravatar and reminds me of my dabbling in fractal art. Just hit random until something nice comes out.

person_of_color 8y ago
Irritating and parochial post. It doesn't look random at all. There is thought behind it. Hence the code.
- erikpukinskis 8y ago
  At all?
jcelerier 8y ago
> Just hit random until something nice comes out. well, congrats, you're an artist ?
mattkevan 8y ago
It's cheating because it was done on a computer! It's a fairly common attitude that creating with a computer is somehow inferior, from Tron missing out on a special effects Oscar because computer graphics was 'cheating', to pretty much every designer being told at some point 'it can't be that hard, it's all done on a computer right?' Expected better from HN though.
- vertline3 8y ago
  Well at risk of waking a tiger, I think his view was one of intentionality. Whereas he did not say it was because it was made with a computer, that sort of feels like putting words in his post. I think cool generative art is the space stuff like no man's sky, and spore. I know it's maybe considered low brow but it was interesting to me.
keithpeter 8y ago
"Just hit random until something nice comes out." Reformulate as 'have a system for building new bodies, add a little bit of randomness, and have an environment that selects for survival' and you have life.
- TheOtherHobbes 8y ago
  Life has ecosystems and - eventually - sentience. This has neither. To be fair, it's much more interesting than most generative art. Although it's also very influenced by heritage art styles, which makes it less fresh than it might be. I think the prodigy label is more likely to apply to someone like Raven Kwok. I've been watching him do amazing things with code for a few years now, and he's been consistently inventive, original, and surprising.
wool_gather 8y ago
It takes a lot of monkeys with a lot of paintbrushes a very, very long time to even complete a paint-by-numbers. This is worlds away from simple randomness; I invite you to try "just hit[ting] random" and see what happens. The art is in finding restrictions on the process, and that has clearly happened in these images. (Incidentally, that's also the case in "traditional" media too.)

by yoz-y 8y ago

person_of_color 8y ago

Irritating and parochial post. It doesn't look random at all. There is thought behind it. Hence the code.

erikpukinskis 8y ago
At all?

jcelerier 8y ago

> Just hit random until something nice comes out. well, congrats, you're an artist ?

mattkevan 8y ago

It's cheating because it was done on a computer! It's a fairly common attitude that creating with a computer is somehow inferior, from Tron missing out on a special effects Oscar because computer graphics was 'cheating', to pretty much every designer being told at some point 'it can't be that hard, it's all done on a computer right?' Expected better from HN though.

vertline3 8y ago
Well at risk of waking a tiger, I think his view was one of intentionality. Whereas he did not say it was because it was made with a computer, that sort of feels like putting words in his post. I think cool generative art is the space stuff like no man's sky, and spore. I know it's maybe considered low brow but it was interesting to me.

keithpeter 8y ago

"Just hit random until something nice comes out." Reformulate as 'have a system for building new bodies, add a little bit of randomness, and have an environment that selects for survival' and you have life.

TheOtherHobbes 8y ago
Life has ecosystems and - eventually - sentience. This has neither. To be fair, it's much more interesting than most generative art. Although it's also very influenced by heritage art styles, which makes it less fresh than it might be. I think the prodigy label is more likely to apply to someone like Raven Kwok. I've been watching him do amazing things with code for a few years now, and he's been consistently inventive, original, and surprising.

wool_gather 8y ago

It takes a lot of monkeys with a lot of paintbrushes a very, very long time to even complete a paint-by-numbers. This is worlds away from simple randomness; I invite you to try "just hit[ting] random" and see what happens. The art is in finding restrictions on the process, and that has clearly happened in these images. (Incidentally, that's also the case in "traditional" media too.)