Comments on: Complexification, the art of programming

By: Algorithmic urbanist and Algorithmic urbanist

Algorithmic urbanist and Algorithmic urbanist — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:41:34 +0000

[...] Drawn â€“ with huge thanks to Brent [...]

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 03:03:35 +0000

This stuff is so endlessly watchable. Just amazing! I saw an article about Jared in Wired magazine last month and their description didn’t lend itself well to what he was doing. This did the trick! I’ve spent hours just watching my computer make a painting. I really should get out more…

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 03:03:00 +0000

By: upso

upso — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:01:39 +0000

you cant compare it to something like a fractal. this stuff has a level of sophisitcation that takes it away from being eye candy. this is very much a form of art. no question about it.

By: upso

upso — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:01:00 +0000

you cant compare it to something like a fractal. this stuff has a level of sophisitcation that takes it away from being eye candy. this is very much a form of art. no question about it.

By: Sagebrush Gardener

Sagebrush Gardener — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:39:41 +0000

I enjoyed these images, as well as others on the processing.org web site. I got an amazing picture from the Dreamlines program using “psychedelic” as a keyword – it was a haunting shadow of a beautiful violet face in an abstract sea of color. Some of these automatically generated images are better than things I’ve seen hanging on gallery walls.

But what does it mean if anyone can make something that looks this cool with such little effort? Is it “art”, or will this style look as tired in five years as fractal designs look now?

By: Sagebrush Gardener

Sagebrush Gardener — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:39:00 +0000

But what does it mean if anyone can make something that looks this cool with such little effort? Is it “art”, or will this style look as tired in five years as fractal designs look now?

By: Kate Black

Kate Black — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:28:35 +0000

Jared just does stunning work. I would love to have a print of one of these.

By: Kate Black

Kate Black — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:28:00 +0000

Jared just does stunning work. I would love to have a print of one of these.

By: zanografix

zanografix — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:13:59 +0000

Its interesting how much this type of art has progressed. When I draw an abstract and convert it to a duotone, I have to adjust peaks and levels of each color. The gradients are pretty close and I used to have to make masks for everything. With 256 levels of gray potentially you could have 256 different masks. On the small repitions that Jared uses I could imagine thousands of iterations with the same minute changes. I have enough trouble with gray scale masks and the computer does a far better job than one tired brain.