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Learning about art using JavaScript

120 points by of 12y ago

Raphmedia 12y ago
I learned a lot about front-end web dev. by making Mondrian art using HTML, CSS and/or JS. I consider it worked very well.
- sherbondy 12y ago
  Likewise, during first year of university, a friend and I had a blast doing a combined art + software project to generate mondrians. We wrote a bunch of processing.js scripts to emulate his various "modes" and tried to make a web application that gradually "honed-in" on a viewer's tastes across Mondrian parameter-space (using some admittedly naive stats): http://mondrian.nfshost.com http://mondrian.nfshost.com :D
clay_to_n 12y ago
Jenn Schiffer also has an absolutely hilarious blog, CSS Perverts: https://medium.com/cool-code-pal https://medium.com/cool-code-pal
- candeira 12y ago
  It's not only hilarious, but also a great example of trolling and audience engagement as performance art. Reading all those earnest comments correcting her Javascript "errors" always makes me cringe at the corrections, feel superior to the people who don't get the joke, and feel guilty at the feeling of superiority. Provoking laughter and these three emotions in one go is quite an achievement.
at_ 12y ago
This is cool. Most impressive thing for me is how wildly different the three works (& thus approaches/challenges posed) are. Curious how Cassatt will be tackled.
pella 12y ago
my favorite - Kandinsky styled maps .. ( not javascript ) "Mapbox Studio, More Kandinsky than Matisse" http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2014/09/mapbox-studio-more-kadinsky-than-matisse.html http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2014/09/mapbox-studio-mo... map: https://api.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/gmapsmania.6e688409/page.html?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiZ21hcHNtYW5pYSIsImEiOiJOYnlnSFpvIn0.5f62d0cnrWCA1KioxzXtqg#16/40.7760/-73.9685 https://api.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/gmapsmania.6e688409/page.htm...
- zevyoura 12y ago
  My favorite map tileset is Stamen's watercolor map: http://maps.stamen.com/watercolor/#12/37.7706/-122.3782 http://maps.stamen.com/watercolor/#12/37.7706/-122.3782
ughwhyeven 12y ago
fart fart who cares

120 points by of 12y ago

I learned a lot about front-end web dev. by making Mondrian art using HTML, CSS and/or JS. I consider it worked very well.

sherbondy 12y ago
Likewise, during first year of university, a friend and I had a blast doing a combined art + software project to generate mondrians. We wrote a bunch of processing.js scripts to emulate his various "modes" and tried to make a web application that gradually "honed-in" on a viewer's tastes across Mondrian parameter-space (using some admittedly naive stats): http://mondrian.nfshost.com http://mondrian.nfshost.com :D

clay_to_n 12y ago

Jenn Schiffer also has an absolutely hilarious blog, CSS Perverts: https://medium.com/cool-code-pal https://medium.com/cool-code-pal

candeira 12y ago
It's not only hilarious, but also a great example of trolling and audience engagement as performance art. Reading all those earnest comments correcting her Javascript "errors" always makes me cringe at the corrections, feel superior to the people who don't get the joke, and feel guilty at the feeling of superiority. Provoking laughter and these three emotions in one go is quite an achievement.

at_ 12y ago

This is cool. Most impressive thing for me is how wildly different the three works (& thus approaches/challenges posed) are. Curious how Cassatt will be tackled.

pella 12y ago

my favorite - Kandinsky styled maps .. ( not javascript ) "Mapbox Studio, More Kandinsky than Matisse" http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2014/09/mapbox-studio-more-kadinsky-than-matisse.html http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2014/09/mapbox-studio-mo... map: https://api.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/gmapsmania.6e688409/page.html?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiZ21hcHNtYW5pYSIsImEiOiJOYnlnSFpvIn0.5f62d0cnrWCA1KioxzXtqg#16/40.7760/-73.9685 https://api.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/gmapsmania.6e688409/page.htm...

zevyoura 12y ago
My favorite map tileset is Stamen's watercolor map: http://maps.stamen.com/watercolor/#12/37.7706/-122.3782 http://maps.stamen.com/watercolor/#12/37.7706/-122.3782

ughwhyeven 12y ago

fart fart who cares