Ok so when I first read about something called Generative Art in Wired magazine many months ago I was mildly interested but only til the end of that article. I never thought to try my hand at it or find out more about how it works. Well I've been following articles on a pretty cool blog: Media Militia* lately and most recently one of the authors wrote about generative art. With a little free time, I toyed with a couple of the different programs that are available for Windows (since that's what I'm stuck with right now, lol) and found that it was more fun than I had thought. Of course, I might add that I do some (not complex) web programming using vb.net so I enjoy a bit of coding anyway. (That's a warning to the non-programmer graphic designers, in case you hate numbers.. )
If you're interested in seeing some of the programs listed on Media Militia's site, follow the link afterward. For this image I used a program called context free, and this is only a sample, using their tutorial with my own embellishments to the program (how I got the curvature in the tree). Nothing complicated!
Here is the simple program:
startshape trunk
rule trunk
{
SQUARE{}
trunk{ rotate .25 y .4 size .99 brightness .005}
}
rule trunk .01
{
SQUARE{}
branch { rotate 25 }
trunk{ y .4 s .99 brightness .005 }
}
rule trunk .03
{
SQUARE{}
branch{ rotate -25 }
trunk{ y .4 s .99 brightness .005 |hue 40 |sat .5 }
}
rule branch
{
SQUARE{}
trunk {y .4 s .99 brightness .005 }
}
Here is the article that got me started, at Media Militia and the programs I've tried:
So try them out! There is also a framework for Flash by Joshua Davis, a generative art guru called Hype which I'm going to try out next!
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