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WEIR-A System for Making Generative Systems

82 points by medo-bear 5y ago

dennisy 5y ago
This is amazing! Is there a comparable package maybe in Python?
reikonomusha 5y ago
Inconvergent [0] (maker of Weir) sells art [1] and it’s beautiful! I bought a piece from him and I proudly hang it up next to my Lisp machines. His code is very much his own personal playground. He hacks on it like crazy to make it do the artistic things he wants. He’s very aware the code isn’t the prettiest, and sometimes mocks himself [2] about it on Twitter. What’s neat is that the code is a sort of continuously living experiment in techniques for doing high-quality generative art. I love seeing the demos he puts out from time to time. I even had the gumption to make a small PR to the code when he decided to open-source it. :) Props to him for caring most about the end result, and only occasionally incidentally about the cool tool he uses as a part of that process. [0] https://twitter.com/inconvergent?s=21 https://twitter.com/inconvergent?s=21 [1] https://img.inconvergent.net/ https://img.inconvergent.net/ [2] https://twitter.com/inconvergent/status/1448741464582803459?s=21 https://twitter.com/inconvergent/status/1448741464582803459?...
- deleted 5y ago
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- WalterGR 5y ago
  You have Lisp machineS?! Tell us more…
swayvil 5y ago
Presently checking out the MECHANICAL PLOTTER DRAWINGS tasty
JasonFruit 5y ago
Parentheses in title are unbalanced.
jedimastert 5y ago
I just started learning common lisp over the last few weeks through Practical Common Lisp; it's been really interesting. (I'll try to ignore the fact that there's mismatched parens in the title...)
- medo-bear 5y ago
  oops i don't have paredit on my phone :)
  - jedimastert 5y ago
    You gotta try parinfer, it's like magic (and the intro completely unlocked the why of the normal lisp indenting style) https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/ https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/
    - medo-bear 5y ago
      looks cool but unfortunately it seems like there is no emacs support. im quite happy and paredit anyway
      - jedimastert 5y ago
        Looks like there's this: https://github.com/justinbarclay/parinfer-rust-mode https://github.com/justinbarclay/parinfer-rust-mode

82 points by medo-bear 5y ago

This is amazing! Is there a comparable package maybe in Python?

Inconvergent [0] (maker of Weir) sells art [1] and it’s beautiful! I bought a piece from him and I proudly hang it up next to my Lisp machines. His code is very much his own personal playground. He hacks on it like crazy to make it do the artistic things he wants. He’s very aware the code isn’t the prettiest, and sometimes mocks himself [2] about it on Twitter. What’s neat is that the code is a sort of continuously living experiment in techniques for doing high-quality generative art. I love seeing the demos he puts out from time to time. I even had the gumption to make a small PR to the code when he decided to open-source it. :) Props to him for caring most about the end result, and only occasionally incidentally about the cool tool he uses as a part of that process. [0] https://twitter.com/inconvergent?s=21 https://twitter.com/inconvergent?s=21 [1] https://img.inconvergent.net/ https://img.inconvergent.net/ [2] https://twitter.com/inconvergent/status/1448741464582803459?s=21 https://twitter.com/inconvergent/status/1448741464582803459?...

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WalterGR 5y ago
You have Lisp machineS?! Tell us more…

swayvil 5y ago

Presently checking out the MECHANICAL PLOTTER DRAWINGS tasty

JasonFruit 5y ago

Parentheses in title are unbalanced.

jedimastert 5y ago

I just started learning common lisp over the last few weeks through Practical Common Lisp; it's been really interesting. (I'll try to ignore the fact that there's mismatched parens in the title...)

medo-bear 5y ago
oops i don't have paredit on my phone :)
- jedimastert 5y ago
  You gotta try parinfer, it's like magic (and the intro completely unlocked the why of the normal lisp indenting style) https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/ https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/
  - medo-bear 5y ago
    looks cool but unfortunately it seems like there is no emacs support. im quite happy and paredit anyway
    - jedimastert 5y ago
      Looks like there's this: https://github.com/justinbarclay/parinfer-rust-mode https://github.com/justinbarclay/parinfer-rust-mode