Interactive Generative Art

http://weavesilk.com/?ika/

by maxraz • 6 years ago

163 26 6 years ago

edotrajan• 6 years ago

does anyone know what language is used and how to replicate it via open source ?

akx• 6 years ago

It's just JavaScript. Looking at the requests made in the browser's inspector, most of the code is in http://weavesilk.com/js/site.js

jkingsman3• 6 years ago

It's made in Coffeescript, actually.

jrott2• 6 years ago

This is the first thing that I've ever used where I thought it would actually be better on a touch screen.

jkingsman3• 6 years ago

WeaveSilk Classic exists on iOS.

jrott2• 6 years ago

Nice I'll have to try it out

gsoto• 6 years ago

Pff, this only draws pictures of my mom naked.

Minor49er2• 6 years ago

Amazing. I knew it was a paint program, bit I didn't realize that it was a Rorschach Test too!

jkingsman3• 6 years ago

This was sadly so much more immersive when the music and sound were available, but the creator removed them due to bandwidth costs. The sounds are still available if you're willing to decompile the ios app and do some spelunking in the Wayback machine; the code isn't all that hard to follow to get audio reenabled

jnwatson• 6 years ago

Yeah, as it stands, I wouldn't call this "generative". It is just a nice looking symmetrical drawing demo. I think I played with a similar toy in 1987 or so on a Mac Plus.

msoad• 6 years ago

I just bought the iPad app! This is a great software!

surround• 6 years ago

See also: https://thisissand.com/

nmstoker• 6 years ago

This has been going to years. By chance I found an old link to it recently and was amazed it was still going. At least Bit Rot doesn't get everywhere (yet)

agravier• 6 years ago

It's a butterfly drawing tool! http://r.weavesilk.com/?v=4&id=ije33bdy3zo

aaronetz• 6 years ago

This is cool. I once made an app in the same vein [1]. I think that generative/immersive art software has a lot of potential. A large part of making art is enjoying the process, whereas most digital art software is about getting results efficiently.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.woodenclos...

ecocentrik• 6 years ago

It's a pretty digital brush but hardly generative. Calling the output generative art is like calling a melody played by a single preset synthesizer running through a delay unit generative music.

Minor49er2• 6 years ago

This is really cool. Well done.

There seems to be an interest in generative are on Hacker News lately. Another one I saw that didn't make it to the front page was No Paint: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23934292

jw1224• 6 years ago

I played with this for ages in the peak of an LSD trip once... It was quite the experience.

Some other fun "art toys" I like are:

1. https://29a.ch/sandbox/2011/neonflames/

2. https://codepen.io/davidpanik/full/myMrLx/

3. https://codepen.io/jackrugile/full/DGenc

stankot• 6 years ago

Shameless plug, I have made one of these interactive toys as well:

https://neon.muffinman.io/

I fell in love with generative art this year, and it became my favorite thing to do. Neon is the first presentable thing I made.

resu_nimda• 6 years ago

Throwing my hat into the ring here as well:

https://james.js.org/tiles/

The basic mode is a matrix of identical tiles spinning at different rates, creating complex organic motion out of a simple concept. There are two other modes and lots of fun parameters to play with!

skulk2• 6 years ago

I'll share one of mine as well. It's a 1-d cellular automata simulator that randomly generates rules and tries to use nice colors. Click to see a new one, and the URLs it generates can be shared. However, that is the limit of interactivity (for now, it's actually meant to be a loose clone of Wolfram Tones but that is far from ready).

https://skulk.org/cell1d

thih9• 6 years ago

I like how space key also works and how browser navigation is supported so that when I accidentally click too many times, I can use the browser's back and forward buttons to navigate between recent patterns.

My current favourite: https://skulk.org/cell1d/#s22492231 . Is there any way to learn what are the rules for this pattern?

aspenmayer• 6 years ago

Am I missing something? I get the impression something ran in-browser, and maybe site is in a low-functionality mode due to HN.

Or is this just a link to a paid app? Looks cool though. Art is worth paying for.

3pt14159• 6 years ago

This thing is still around? Awesome! Back in the day I made an autohotkey script to make my name and threw it on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUr_rZMY61A

monkeydust• 6 years ago

Was researching GA for a business idea recently, here are some of the better resources I found.

A collection of my generative artwork, mostly with Processing in Python mode https://github.com/aaronpenne/generative_art

cutterkom/generativeart: Create Generative Art with R https://github.com/cutterkom/generativeart

kosmos/awesome-generative-art: Awesome generative art https://github.com/kosmos/awesome-generative-art

Programming Graphics I: Introduction to Generative Art | Joshua Davis | Skillshare https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Programming-Graphics-I-In...