Comments on: Getting Started With Generative Art

By: Sebastian Oliva

Sebastian Oliva — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:57:12 +0000

Hi!, I’m one of the developers of Shoebot, an app similar in purpose to Nodebox, using python as well, but multi-platform (Win, Linux, Mac); it is also free software (GPLv2).

If you are interested, give it a go; the url is http://shoebot.net

Cheers!
Sebastian

By: K Rouss

K Rouss — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:12:21 +0000

I’ve been searching for this information for a whole 24 hours! This type of art was not easy to find a tutorial or even explanation of how it was created. Great job creating an introduction.

By: Dez

Dez — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:54:00 +0000

all i can say – wow! the amount of mind-altering info here is staggering. thank you! i am more of a musician, but when worlds collide it’s much more interesting. i’ve been looking into generative sound-art for a while now, and i’ve got to say this site & the programs you have listed here are a great find.

By: Nelio Barros

Nelio Barros — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:00:41 +0000

Great article. I’m linking it on http://kinomotion.net/visual-code-designers-the-right-left-brain-dillema/

Cheers!

By: Itsashirt T shirts

Itsashirt T shirts — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:53:19 +0000

Like the movement and colors in the tiger illustration

By: fuzzy

fuzzy — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:45:48 +0000

@bob …Of course, anything is possible if you put your mind to it!

Your best bet is to use the free Flex compiler in the Flex 3 SDK.
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Flex+SDK

The Flex Builder IDE is also available with a 60 day free trial.

Alternately, you can use the Processing language which is free open source software and has many (if not more) of the drawing capabilities available in the ActionScript drawing API. Processing can also be expanded through a wide variety of libraries which can handle things like sound and video.

By: bob

bob — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:58:22 +0000

Hi guys.

Does anyone know if flash artworks can be created with actionscript and flash libraries, but without the flash IDE ?

The flash works look really beautiful, and I’m getting started learning actionscript . But I’m on linux, so I won’t have access to the flash IDE.

Is it still possible for me to create beautiful generative art ?

By: Darpan Jain

Darpan Jain — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:16:13 +0000

Great Article and resource… Was looking for information on generative art and got lucky today… So well written and precisely framed.. thanks for sharing.. Excellent Resource and a source of inspiration for sure.

By: Roberto Alanís

Roberto Alanís — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:26:54 +0000

WOOW!!! Thanks for posting this, it’s awesome, this is totally changing the way I do my works, by far the most awesome post I’ve seen. I can’t believe but I’ll use Flash from now on, thanks!

By: Fuzzy

Fuzzy — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:35:32 +0000

Wow, this is really getting much more attention since Josh’s talk was posted on the AdobeTV site. Which is awesome, since we are all curious what the deal is & it’s wonderful that people like you are starting to post more resources and tutorials. Thanks for the great article!

Also, I’m really glad you mentioned Josh’s “Flash to the Core” number 19b. I also find this one fascinating, but since it’s in an old version of ActionScript, I have been totally unable to parse out what is going on there. I can’t even find where the code is!! Coming to Flash with some programming background, AS3 totally makes sense, but AS2 is like impenetrable gobblydegook to me. If you or someone with the AS2 -> AS3 knowledge could translate this to an AS3 class I would greatly appreciate it.

Great Job!