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Interactive Generative Art

163 points by maxraz 6y ago

edotrajan 6y ago
does anyone know what language is used and how to replicate it via open source ?
- akx 6y ago
  It's just JavaScript. Looking at the requests made in the browser's inspector, most of the code is in http://weavesilk.com/js/site.js http://weavesilk.com/js/site.js
  - jkingsman 6y ago
    It's made in Coffeescript, actually.
jrott 6y ago
This is the first thing that I've ever used where I thought it would actually be better on a touch screen.
- jkingsman 6y ago
  WeaveSilk Classic exists on iOS.
  - jrott 6y ago
    Nice I'll have to try it out
gsoto 6y ago
Pff, this only draws pictures of my mom naked.
- Minor49er 6y ago
  Amazing. I knew it was a paint program, bit I didn't realize that it was a Rorschach Test too!
jkingsman 6y ago
This was sadly so much more immersive when the music and sound were available, but the creator removed them due to bandwidth costs. The sounds are still available if you're willing to decompile the ios app and do some spelunking in the Wayback machine; the code isn't all that hard to follow to get audio reenabled
- jnwatson 6y ago
  Yeah, as it stands, I wouldn't call this "generative". It is just a nice looking symmetrical drawing demo. I think I played with a similar toy in 1987 or so on a Mac Plus.
msoad 6y ago
I just bought the iPad app! This is a great software!
deleted 6y ago
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surround 6y ago
See also: https://thisissand.com/ https://thisissand.com/
nmstoker 6y ago
This has been going to years. By chance I found an old link to it recently and was amazed it was still going. At least Bit Rot doesn't get everywhere (yet)
agravier 6y ago
It's a butterfly drawing tool! http://r.weavesilk.com/?v=4&id=ije33bdy3zo http://r.weavesilk.com/?v=4&id=ije33bdy3zo
aaronetz 6y ago
This is cool. I once made an app in the same vein [1]. I think that generative/immersive art software has a lot of potential. A large part of making art is enjoying the process, whereas most digital art software is about getting results efficiently. [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.woodencloset.paintsplash https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.woodenclos...
ecocentrik 6y ago
It's a pretty digital brush but hardly generative. Calling the output generative art is like calling a melody played by a single preset synthesizer running through a delay unit generative music.
Minor49er 6y ago
This is really cool. Well done. There seems to be an interest in generative are on Hacker News lately. Another one I saw that didn't make it to the front page was No Paint: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23934292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23934292
jw1224 6y ago
I played with this for ages in the peak of an LSD trip once... It was quite the experience. Some other fun "art toys" I like are: 1. https://29a.ch/sandbox/2011/neonflames/ https://29a.ch/sandbox/2011/neonflames/ 2. https://codepen.io/davidpanik/full/myMrLx/ https://codepen.io/davidpanik/full/myMrLx/ 3. https://codepen.io/jackrugile/full/DGenc https://codepen.io/jackrugile/full/DGenc
- stankot 6y ago
  Shameless plug, I have made one of these interactive toys as well: https://neon.muffinman.io/ https://neon.muffinman.io/ I fell in love with generative art this year, and it became my favorite thing to do. Neon is the first presentable thing I made.
- resu_nimda 6y ago
  Throwing my hat into the ring here as well: https://james.js.org/tiles/ https://james.js.org/tiles/ The basic mode is a matrix of identical tiles spinning at different rates, creating complex organic motion out of a simple concept. There are two other modes and lots of fun parameters to play with!
- skulk 6y ago
  I'll share one of mine as well. It's a 1-d cellular automata simulator that randomly generates rules and tries to use nice colors. Click to see a new one, and the URLs it generates can be shared. However, that is the limit of interactivity (for now, it's actually meant to be a loose clone of Wolfram Tones but that is far from ready). https://skulk.org/cell1d https://skulk.org/cell1d
  - thih9 6y ago
    I like how space key also works and how browser navigation is supported so that when I accidentally click too many times, I can use the browser's back and forward buttons to navigate between recent patterns. My current favourite: https://skulk.org/cell1d/#s22492231 https://skulk.org/cell1d/#s22492231 . Is there any way to learn what are the rules for this pattern?
aspenmayer 6y ago
Am I missing something? I get the impression something ran in-browser, and maybe site is in a low-functionality mode due to HN. Or is this just a link to a paid app? Looks cool though. Art is worth paying for.
3pt14159 6y ago
This thing is still around? Awesome! Back in the day I made an autohotkey script to make my name and threw it on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUr_rZMY61A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUr_rZMY61A
monkeydust 6y ago
Was researching GA for a business idea recently, here are some of the better resources I found. A collection of my generative artwork, mostly with Processing in Python mode https://github.com/aaronpenne/generative_art https://github.com/aaronpenne/generative_art cutterkom/generativeart: Create Generative Art with R https://github.com/cutterkom/generativeart https://github.com/cutterkom/generativeart kosmos/awesome-generative-art: Awesome generative art https://github.com/kosmos/awesome-generative-art https://github.com/kosmos/awesome-generative-art Programming Graphics I: Introduction to Generative Art | Joshua Davis | Skillshare https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Programming-Graphics-I-Introduction-to-Generative-Art/782118657 https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Programming-Graphics-I-In...

163 points by maxraz 6y ago

edotrajan 6y ago

does anyone know what language is used and how to replicate it via open source ?

akx 6y ago
It's just JavaScript. Looking at the requests made in the browser's inspector, most of the code is in http://weavesilk.com/js/site.js http://weavesilk.com/js/site.js
- jkingsman 6y ago
  It's made in Coffeescript, actually.

jrott 6y ago

This is the first thing that I've ever used where I thought it would actually be better on a touch screen.

jkingsman 6y ago
WeaveSilk Classic exists on iOS.
- jrott 6y ago
  Nice I'll have to try it out

gsoto 6y ago

Pff, this only draws pictures of my mom naked.

Minor49er 6y ago
Amazing. I knew it was a paint program, bit I didn't realize that it was a Rorschach Test too!

jkingsman 6y ago

This was sadly so much more immersive when the music and sound were available, but the creator removed them due to bandwidth costs. The sounds are still available if you're willing to decompile the ios app and do some spelunking in the Wayback machine; the code isn't all that hard to follow to get audio reenabled

jnwatson 6y ago
Yeah, as it stands, I wouldn't call this "generative". It is just a nice looking symmetrical drawing demo. I think I played with a similar toy in 1987 or so on a Mac Plus.

msoad 6y ago

I just bought the iPad app! This is a great software!

deleted 6y ago

[deleted]

surround 6y ago

See also: https://thisissand.com/ https://thisissand.com/

nmstoker 6y ago

This has been going to years. By chance I found an old link to it recently and was amazed it was still going. At least Bit Rot doesn't get everywhere (yet)

agravier 6y ago

It's a butterfly drawing tool! http://r.weavesilk.com/?v=4&id=ije33bdy3zo http://r.weavesilk.com/?v=4&id=ije33bdy3zo

aaronetz 6y ago

This is cool. I once made an app in the same vein [1]. I think that generative/immersive art software has a lot of potential. A large part of making art is enjoying the process, whereas most digital art software is about getting results efficiently. [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.woodencloset.paintsplash https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.woodenclos...

ecocentrik 6y ago

It's a pretty digital brush but hardly generative. Calling the output generative art is like calling a melody played by a single preset synthesizer running through a delay unit generative music.

Minor49er 6y ago

This is really cool. Well done. There seems to be an interest in generative are on Hacker News lately. Another one I saw that didn't make it to the front page was No Paint: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23934292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23934292

jw1224 6y ago

I played with this for ages in the peak of an LSD trip once... It was quite the experience. Some other fun "art toys" I like are: 1. https://29a.ch/sandbox/2011/neonflames/ https://29a.ch/sandbox/2011/neonflames/ 2. https://codepen.io/davidpanik/full/myMrLx/ https://codepen.io/davidpanik/full/myMrLx/ 3. https://codepen.io/jackrugile/full/DGenc https://codepen.io/jackrugile/full/DGenc

stankot 6y ago
Shameless plug, I have made one of these interactive toys as well: https://neon.muffinman.io/ https://neon.muffinman.io/ I fell in love with generative art this year, and it became my favorite thing to do. Neon is the first presentable thing I made.
resu_nimda 6y ago
Throwing my hat into the ring here as well: https://james.js.org/tiles/ https://james.js.org/tiles/ The basic mode is a matrix of identical tiles spinning at different rates, creating complex organic motion out of a simple concept. There are two other modes and lots of fun parameters to play with!
skulk 6y ago
I'll share one of mine as well. It's a 1-d cellular automata simulator that randomly generates rules and tries to use nice colors. Click to see a new one, and the URLs it generates can be shared. However, that is the limit of interactivity (for now, it's actually meant to be a loose clone of Wolfram Tones but that is far from ready). https://skulk.org/cell1d https://skulk.org/cell1d
- thih9 6y ago
  I like how space key also works and how browser navigation is supported so that when I accidentally click too many times, I can use the browser's back and forward buttons to navigate between recent patterns. My current favourite: https://skulk.org/cell1d/#s22492231 https://skulk.org/cell1d/#s22492231 . Is there any way to learn what are the rules for this pattern?

aspenmayer 6y ago

Am I missing something? I get the impression something ran in-browser, and maybe site is in a low-functionality mode due to HN. Or is this just a link to a paid app? Looks cool though. Art is worth paying for.

3pt14159 6y ago

This thing is still around? Awesome! Back in the day I made an autohotkey script to make my name and threw it on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUr_rZMY61A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUr_rZMY61A

monkeydust 6y ago

Was researching GA for a business idea recently, here are some of the better resources I found. A collection of my generative artwork, mostly with Processing in Python mode https://github.com/aaronpenne/generative_art https://github.com/aaronpenne/generative_art cutterkom/generativeart: Create Generative Art with R https://github.com/cutterkom/generativeart https://github.com/cutterkom/generativeart kosmos/awesome-generative-art: Awesome generative art https://github.com/kosmos/awesome-generative-art https://github.com/kosmos/awesome-generative-art Programming Graphics I: Introduction to Generative Art | Joshua Davis | Skillshare https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Programming-Graphics-I-Introduction-to-Generative-Art/782118657 https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Programming-Graphics-I-In...