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One of my hobbies back in college was to write fun js fiddles [1]. It was super fun to have the time and curiosity to investigate something. I've been missing i

by atum47 6mo ago

One of my hobbies back in college was to write fun js fiddles [1]. It was super fun to have the time and curiosity to investigate something. I've been missing it more and more each passing day. I was super curious about generative art, procedural generation... I guess it is a negative term now, with AIs being able to create such complex stuff as video, audio and God knows what else. I was once working on a memes app where users could submit images. I was knee deep in how to identify duplicate images to keep my meme database "clean", so I was investigating cosine similarities... Few months went by and AI can do that better. Thats how ai feel now: AI can do it better, so why bother? 1 - https://jsfiddle.net/u/victorqribeiro https://jsfiddle.net/u/victorqribeiro

abrookewood 6mo ago
Machines can quickly build repeatable, efficient, 'perfect' clothing - but people still knit.
- LastTrain 6mo ago
  Art isn’t useful or practical, clothing is.
  - esseph 6mo ago
    I have a very nice knife that is absolutely art, and is extremely useful.
  - TJSomething 6mo ago
    A lot of clothes aren't particularly practical. I'd argue that artifacts are more likely to be art if their purpose is more aesthetic than practical. As such, I'd say that some articles of clothing are art (like anything you see on a runway), some aren't (e.g. basic T-shirt), and some seem ambiguous to me (some ties might be art, but some are pretty boring and they don't have much practical use).
- futura_heavy 6mo ago
  I’ve been a fan of Libs Elliott’s generative quilting patterns for years and years: https://pin.it/4Mhpfc5OK https://pin.it/4Mhpfc5OK
blacksmith_tb 6mo ago
Hmm, isn't that a little like saying "now that we have cameras, no one needs to paint any more!" AIs can generate realistic video and images, but for me the fun of generative art is that it isn't realistic, it has texture, you can get a sense of what kind of patterns it will make, like echoes of the algorithm. Sure, you could probably prompt for some kind of geometric image, but if you asked for a little script that made them, then you could make tweaks and see what happens...
cloudbubble 6mo ago
Because the process of creating something is transformative

by atum47 6mo ago

abrookewood 6mo ago

Machines can quickly build repeatable, efficient, 'perfect' clothing - but people still knit.

LastTrain 6mo ago
Art isn’t useful or practical, clothing is.
- esseph 6mo ago
  I have a very nice knife that is absolutely art, and is extremely useful.
- TJSomething 6mo ago
  A lot of clothes aren't particularly practical. I'd argue that artifacts are more likely to be art if their purpose is more aesthetic than practical. As such, I'd say that some articles of clothing are art (like anything you see on a runway), some aren't (e.g. basic T-shirt), and some seem ambiguous to me (some ties might be art, but some are pretty boring and they don't have much practical use).
futura_heavy 6mo ago
I’ve been a fan of Libs Elliott’s generative quilting patterns for years and years: https://pin.it/4Mhpfc5OK https://pin.it/4Mhpfc5OK

blacksmith_tb 6mo ago

Hmm, isn't that a little like saying "now that we have cameras, no one needs to paint any more!" AIs can generate realistic video and images, but for me the fun of generative art is that it isn't realistic, it has texture, you can get a sense of what kind of patterns it will make, like echoes of the algorithm. Sure, you could probably prompt for some kind of geometric image, but if you asked for a little script that made them, then you could make tweaks and see what happens...

cloudbubble 6mo ago

Because the process of creating something is transformative