Did some generative art tutorials over the 2021 holiday period. Code-as-art-medium feels like learning a new technique, and actually deciding what to draw feels more creative and expressive than I’m used to.

I was working through the book Generative Design, redoing its examples (originally in Processing) in Rust and Nannou, then tweaking them a bit to see what effects I could get. The resulting code is on Github.

Here’s a twist on a classic demo (watch for a bit to get the idea).

Twitching diagonals animation

I like how this one feels like a pencil sketch.

Pencil sketch of a tornado from below

(this one starts off with kinda Arrival vibes)

Pencil sketch of concentric circles 1 Pencil sketch of concentric circles 2 Pencil sketch of concentric circles 3 Pencil sketch of concentric circles 4