It’s been over a year since I last posted a collection of small generative art sketches – but that’s not because I stopped making them, I just got a bit lazy with posting. There’s quite a lot queued up now! And without any further ado, here are candidates #29 to #35.
#029: Plasma Blob
This one isn’t terribly impressive, but it was made in a few minutes to demonstrate Processing to a colleague and is reasonably nice to look at.
#030: Mara’s Ocean
A typographic variation of #028: Isles using the Mara’s Eye font.
#031: Chimera Maker: What Has Science Done?!
The sillyness levels go through the roof with this one. For executables for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android and for more pictures, check out it’s own blog post!
#032: Grass Tree
Another ad-hoc Processing tutorial I gave for a ground of friends. This one was a bit more involved than #029: Plasma Blob and looks pretty nice!
#033: Dance of the Fireflies
An experiment with boids/flocking. Unfortunately a little dark-ish, so it’s best observed at night – just like real fireflies!
#034: Living Constellations
Stars float around and form constellations with nearby other stars.
#035: Smoky Silk
Yet another silk variation.
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Source Code (GitHub, MIT license)
Instructions:
- Plasma Blob: Left-click to refresh.
- Maras Ocean:
- Left-click or X to refresh.
- Right-click or C to refresh, but keep color palette.
- Middle-click or V to refresh, but switch colors.
- Grass Trees:
- Left-click to refresh.
- Right-click to instantly finish growing.
- Dance of the Fireflies
- Left-click to refresh.
- Middle-click to take 1000 steps and pause.
- Right-click to pause/unpause.
- A to refresh and finish 1000 steps with same color.
- S to refresh and finish 1000 steps with changed color.
- Living Constellations
- Left-click to refresh.
- Right-click to pause/unpause.
- Smoky Silk
- Left-click to refresh.
- Middle-click to take 1000 steps and pause.
- Right-click to pause/unpause.
If you’re not on Windows, fret not; for some reason I can’t compile for Mac and Linux, but you can just download Processing and open the sketch files. Sometimes you need to add a library, but mostly it’s really straightforward. If you need any help doing that, just send me a mail or comment here.