I like very much GENERATIVE ART, do you ?

My life. Right there.

Actually, based on given definition my workflow mostly encompasses procedural means of getting stuff working. I kinda do generative stuff when needed. I'm currently switching my 3D workflow fr om Maya to Houdini and SoftImage since they're both procedural / generative software workflows. It's super technical, super physics based, but super robust and I'd rather know Houdini than anything else.

I do a ton of 2D work on the side of 3D stuff too. This is wh ere it gets procedural-generative-ish. I use Synthetik StudioArtist 4 for that. Pretty awesome painting tool. It's partially based off of intelligent algorithms for painting images and can synthetically generate images as well. Can be applied to video and pretty much does more than enough. Insane piece of art program. You'd love it: http://www.synthetik.com/ and the user group: http://studioartist.ning.com/ Most of my background work for my thesis film utilizes Studio Artist because it's amazing.

I also do real-time interactive art. Most of that stuff runs on GPU which is awesome. I work generally on Quartz Composer for real time stuff. Sometimes realtime visuals have to be accompanied by music, so I lately produce custom instruments with Reaktor. So actors or audience members can interact with the music via OSC or Midi controls as well as the visuals.

Generative... procedural... kinda in between. I generally don't code. I kinda do scripting once every now and then. But there you go... a bit of long but brief overview of generative / procedural stuff I do.

Other art software / toys I use for fun and sometimes design work: U&I Software Artmatic (and Artmatic Voyager), Metasynth, ContextFree, Node Box, Structure Synth, UltraFractal

Whatever. Nothing's complete without images n stuff. Here's my half-complete portfolio with links to other junk I have online: http://cargocollective.com/Skybase

I have found this very interesting and useful list of many Generative Art Tools

Roshanratnayake Generative Art Tools compilation list

Make sure you read the licenses for the codes:

All the code is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 License (Attribution – NonCommerical – ShareAlike) which basically means you are free to use it as long as you:

1. give http://www.zenbullets.com a credit
2. don’t use it for commercial gain
3. share anything created with it in the same way I have

I think Processing will suit you well. It's pretty darn easy to use and it doesn't take long before you make relatively complex stuff. Processing itself has a ton of sample code so make sure you utilize those as well.

I have just found that there is also another alternative name for this kind of art and is Algorithmic art

Quote
From Wikipedia Algorithmic art, also known as computer-generated art, is a subset of generative art and is related to systems art. Fractal art is an example of algorithmic art.

And using this "Algorithmic art" in google images gives very nice, cool and interesting results

I like most of them but have selected some

geometrical art

Geometrical art 2

and both of them belong to this website this interesting website

Very interesting.

Skybase has told above the Structure Synth and Nodebox software and have always wished to try them and see what can be done with them, but until now for different reasons I have not been able to do it, so I want to leave it here if anyone could be interested in it

Nodebox website

Structure Synth website

And there is also a procedural 3D generator software I have just discovered

FUGU thread

Skybase, the crappy clock texture is brilliant.

Hi, I want to recover this thread with a very interesting article I have found with many interesting things included and want to share it here

generative-digital-art-tutorials-and-inspiration

Also in these 4 years since the start of this threads seems that there is even much more interest in generative art, although regrettably most of the good and interesting new ones are only based on programming, coding or scripting wihout any visual interface

Quote
Skybase wrote You'd seriously love nodebox. The output can be vector and it's easier to use than a lot of the others out there. Very enjoyable. Follow some tutorials and you'll get the logic. Program doesn't complicate over traditional programming at all.

I have never had the time to download and see what this Nodebox can do, and even theres is a OpenGL version, maybe is because I did not know how to start or where to start, and if it may be as easy as you say, as I am sorry that I am greatly allergic to any programming, coding or, scripting, I can only use visual simple software

Thanks for you valuable and wise comments

Quote
Skybase wrote: Just use Nodebox3 if you're just getting into it. OpenGL version is basically nodebox 1 plus the graphics library, it's intended to expand capabilities of Nodebox 1 and it's not intended for everyone

Oh thanks, I did not notice that the OpenGL version is only 1.7 and not version 3

Quote
Skybase wrote: Nodebox3 is more graphical of an interface, I think it's easier to understand what's going on and ultimately might get you somewhere.

interesting and good news

Quote
Skybase wrote: I donno call whatever, but I think people aren't allergic to stuff, more like don't have any foundational knowledge to kickstart a chain of ideas. I just feel like people let their fear of "I don't know what I'm doing" feelings override their ability to learn something.

Although it was really a jooke , I have to agere and say YES, exactly, you are right , but it is really true as I don't have any foundational knowledge I am like lost and feel bad that do not where to start and how to do it, and get much frustrated.

Quote
Skybase wrote: It's not anyone's fault that they're doing that. I think it's just natural to fear the unknown. Just that some people like to hop over the fence to see what's up on the other side.

I am not afraid of unknown IF I can know that I can be able to learn and discover what is on the other side, but regrettably I am not able to learn any kind of programming, coding, scripting, for me is like entering in the desert, in the way that alll is with written specific words to be combined, and I work really much more and much better in a VISUAL way like in FF where you combine nodes and not have to do any programming

I have found this useful list of Generative Art software that I think is very good and useful and even more is that at the end of the list there are also many great and cool Examples that are very good

Getting Started With Generative Art - List of availlable software

In all these years since 2012 the Generative art has expanded and exploded very much and now is much more widely available and even more with the use of AI (artificial intelligence) to create them

Here is a update made in 2021 with some artists that do it

Generative art to show new generative art

I really miss Skybase (or Yuya Takeda) as he really was awesome making generative art using filter forge, studio artist, modo 3D and other different graphic software