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Your link to "algorithmic architecture" was such a letdown. These guys weren't doing architecture, they were just making a flashy Apple ad! Can you expand on wh
by creata 6y ago
Your link to "algorithmic architecture" was such a letdown. These guys weren't doing architecture, they were just making a flashy Apple ad! Can you expand on what you mean when you call the Stripe globe and the Apple ad "state of the art"? I assume you don't mean that these are some of the most technically proficient graphics you've seen, because that would just be silly.
And comparing something developed by a design studio with god-knows-how-much rendering time to something designed in-house that runs live in your browser seems a little strange.
- robenkleene 6y agoYes, I would consider the examples "some of the most technically proficient graphics", but you can find practically infinite examples of impressive procedural work done with visual-programming-language-based tools. I'd love to find more impressive examples using text-based programming languages though, those are harder to find. I agree that comparing a video to something that runs live obviously isn't fair, but that's not really the axis I'm concerned about here. Plain-text code seems to struggle at the artistic level vs. visual tools, not the performance level. E.g., the counterargument I'm looking for would be impressive visuals created purely in code that's either pre-render (e.g., as a video), or running live, I don't really care, I just want to see visually impressive work.
- mcphage 6y agoYou might like this link a bit better: https://www.rhino3d.com/6/new/grasshopper/ https://www.rhino3d.com/6/new/grasshopper/ For context, "Grasshopper" has been a nodes-and-boxes plugin for Rhino 3D—a 3D modeling app—for many years. By "new" they mean that it has been promoted from plugin to just part of Rhino itself. But if you look for people doing things with Grasshopper, you'll find a ton of examples.