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Making Generative Art with Rust

126 points by habitue 5y ago

abductee_hg 5y ago
how about doing it for real? (4074 bytes exe) https://demozoo.org/graphics/292422/ https://demozoo.org/graphics/292422/
- MacTuitui 5y ago
  Yes, there's always people doing things differently, with different targets, and amazing results. I don't think it matters when it comes to the 'for real' factor of the practice though. I could say that I've been doing daily animations for the past 1580 days, and that's definitely real in my book. Your call.
- mumphster 5y ago
  completely different take on generative art, did you look at any of the examples in the interview or read it? It's not a contest around tech, its a conversation around tools and using them to express yourself
MacTuitui 5y ago
Thanks for the interview and the response here!
wyldfire 5y ago
AFAICT you need an instagram account to see the videos :(
- MacTuitui 5y ago
  Sorry for that. I'm also on twitter https://twitter.com/MacTuitui https://twitter.com/MacTuitui but you'll have to go back in time to find the relevant ones.
- deleted 5y ago
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- habitue 5y ago
  I rehosted the high-res versions on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLynsFaxiujzqKd7qtSreJ40qCwER80Owf https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLynsFaxiujzqKd7qtSreJ...
- nestorD 5y ago
  The links appears to now be youtube.
erwinh 5y ago
Great to see a movement arising where art/tech starts to hopefully grow closer together with a new generation of generative artists. Reading Isaacsons Da Vinci biography. Even in his time there was a bit of a split between science and art, but also a lot of collaboration in the science of anatomy. In our time I think we still need more merging of art with computer science, complexity science etc! Quick plug of my own generative work: https://hyperobjects.design/gallery https://hyperobjects.design/gallery Click through to the individual artwork pages for links to access the source code for every work and run it directly in the browser.
- pacificat0r 5y ago
  It looks super nice. What's that framework that you use for your art?
  - erwinh 5y ago
    https://hyperobjects.design/workbench https://hyperobjects.design/workbench Developing this creative-coding tool myself that renders to SVG/Canvas!
anaerobicover 5y ago
In the GitHub video you said "you should never use π" (to use τ instead), an interesting comment. What is the reasoning for saying so?
- MacTuitui 5y ago
  That was an obscure reference to https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto and others 'tauist' beliefs. But really, it's more of a 'well most of the time it's 2π' so maybe it makes sense to use the constant that represents that number, and since we're talking about small details, '2.0*PI' is also longer than 'TAU' to type.

126 points by habitue 5y ago

abductee_hg 5y ago

how about doing it for real? (4074 bytes exe) https://demozoo.org/graphics/292422/ https://demozoo.org/graphics/292422/

MacTuitui 5y ago
Yes, there's always people doing things differently, with different targets, and amazing results. I don't think it matters when it comes to the 'for real' factor of the practice though. I could say that I've been doing daily animations for the past 1580 days, and that's definitely real in my book. Your call.
mumphster 5y ago
completely different take on generative art, did you look at any of the examples in the interview or read it? It's not a contest around tech, its a conversation around tools and using them to express yourself

MacTuitui 5y ago

Thanks for the interview and the response here!

wyldfire 5y ago

AFAICT you need an instagram account to see the videos :(

MacTuitui 5y ago
Sorry for that. I'm also on twitter https://twitter.com/MacTuitui https://twitter.com/MacTuitui but you'll have to go back in time to find the relevant ones.
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habitue 5y ago
I rehosted the high-res versions on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLynsFaxiujzqKd7qtSreJ40qCwER80Owf https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLynsFaxiujzqKd7qtSreJ...
nestorD 5y ago
The links appears to now be youtube.

erwinh 5y ago

Great to see a movement arising where art/tech starts to hopefully grow closer together with a new generation of generative artists. Reading Isaacsons Da Vinci biography. Even in his time there was a bit of a split between science and art, but also a lot of collaboration in the science of anatomy. In our time I think we still need more merging of art with computer science, complexity science etc! Quick plug of my own generative work: https://hyperobjects.design/gallery https://hyperobjects.design/gallery Click through to the individual artwork pages for links to access the source code for every work and run it directly in the browser.

pacificat0r 5y ago
It looks super nice. What's that framework that you use for your art?
- erwinh 5y ago
  https://hyperobjects.design/workbench https://hyperobjects.design/workbench Developing this creative-coding tool myself that renders to SVG/Canvas!

anaerobicover 5y ago

In the GitHub video you said "you should never use π" (to use τ instead), an interesting comment. What is the reasoning for saying so?

MacTuitui 5y ago
That was an obscure reference to https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto and others 'tauist' beliefs. But really, it's more of a 'well most of the time it's 2π' so maybe it makes sense to use the constant that represents that number, and since we're talking about small details, '2.0*PI' is also longer than 'TAU' to type.