Generative Art

Coded Beauty/JustLineOn Tutorial

28/10/2008

Okay I knew this was going to happen. Deadlines were tough for my thesis project and as soon as the whole thing was done I got lazy. That’s why there is no documentation or tutorial for my thesis Project. And of course now everybody is confused about the use of JustLineOn. So I think it’s time for me to change that so more people may be able to explore this project.

Coded Beauty

10/2008

I just launched the website accompanying my diploma project. As the creation of this blog was initially caused by this diploma project I’m really pleased to announce it here.

ExtendScript – Use Flash in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign

07/07/2008

While doing some general research on which technologies are good to use if you’re doing generative artwork I stumbled upon ExtendScript. It is an extended implementation of JavaScript which can be used to control and automate the major Adobe Creative Suite Applications beeing Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Since CS3 Flash can be used to build the GUI for using ExtendScript in these Applications.

Firefly

14/05/2008

The last days I’ve been working on a file which has turned out to be quite nice.

The initial thought was to draw a set of connected lines randomly moving across the canvas with predefined angles.

I constantly added new features like colors, collision detection, line thickness, random abortion of line drawing,…

Malewitsch

07/05/2008

So still inspired by the same exhibition now this work started from Malewitsch’s work Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying but as I continued to work on it it grew bigger and bigger…