Ever since I’ve heard Branden Hall talk about Okapi at this years Flash on the Beach Conference I’ve been eager to get my hands on it and start playing around. To the right you can see what I have come up with by now.

So I thought a lot of other people might like to try that out as well, so why not write a simple Tutorial. So here we go.

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.