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CREATIVE CODING

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ALGORITHMIC ART

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GENERATIVE ART

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MATHEMATICAL ART

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MATHEMATICAL ART

ARTISTIC CODING

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“The computer will show you billions of possibilities, which your limited imagination couldn’t have thought of… with computers, you can first open up the entire spectrum and decide, this is the part that interests me.”

-Vera Molnar

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You will learn valuable and transferable skills.

_1 General purpose programming

_2 AI/ML

_3 Geometry + trigonometry

_4 Design

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You will learn valuable and transferable skills.

_1 General purpose programming

_2 AI/ML

_3 Geometry + trigonometry

_4 Design

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You will learn valuable and transferable skills.

_1 General purpose programming

_2 AI/ML

_3 Geometry + trigonometry

_4 Design

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It’s a great way to engage with the community and promote your work.

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It’s a great way to engage with the community and promote your work.

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Ultimately, do it if you think it’s fun and you want to.

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Tools (what are they good for?)

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Tools don’t dictate whether you can or can’t make art. But they do guide your process and shape your output.

Excellent talk by Matt DesLauriers on process, tools, generative design:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uo6zFwSO78&feature=youtu.be

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“Wow, it’s so beautiful how you’ve gotten 10 million particles to run in real time on your GPU with integrated physics simulation”

-Nobody ever

(ok, maybe some software engineers)

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_Lesson 1

Focus on the fundamentals and creating an output you like. Don’t worry about how complex your solution, or how new your tool.

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Fundamentals are transferable and will serve you well no matter your tools.

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_Lesson 2

Find inspiration: in nature, in other art, in everyday objects.

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_Gris, Nomada Studios

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_Lesson 3

Get involved with a community. Find other artists, both computational and traditional on Twitter, Instagram, or wherever. Share you own material and interact with others.

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“… You open the spectrum of possibilities, and say this is the part that interests me, so you focus and develop all the possibilities. Later, you find the interesting part is actually over here, so you get closer. It’s a paradox,but the people who argued at the beginning that using computers dehumanizes art… the opposite is true. Because it’s thanks to all this technology that we can get very close to what we have imagined, that otherwise we might not have found.”

-Vera Molnar

howthank you!

My blogs on art with R: https://www.williamrchase.com/categories/art/

The coding train: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvjgXvBlbQiydffZU7m1_aw

@inconvergent on generative algorithms: https://inconvergent.net/generative/

Tyler Hobbs essays: https://tylerxhobbs.com/essays

@W_R_Chasewww.williamrchase.com