Talking About Generative Art

Some discussions about some of the techniques, theory, and math behind some of my generative art works. See @mathling@mastodon.social for dailies and DeviantArt: lingmath or RedBubble: holstege for the gallery. Prints on various kinds of products available at RedBubble. A print book with some early works is available at Barnes and Noble. See index.html for information about the code.

• 2025 Retrospective
• 2024 Retrospective
• Writing PNGs with embedded metadata in Saxon
• Smooth curves
• The Mystery of the Great Icosahedron
• Fun with Letterforms
• Circles within circles
• Quaternion rotations
• Stars
• 2023 retrospective
• Mazes
• Lindenmayer systems
• Guilloché patterns
• A brief note on fractal colouring
• A simple circle-packing algorithm
• 2022 retrospective
• Quaternions
• Pseudospirals
• Bézier arc splitting
• Symmetry
• Wave function collapse
• Glowing dots of light
• Universal egg equation
• Contours
• Weaving
• Space
• Colour spaces
• Random distributions
• Bent
• Phase plots of complex functions
• de Bruijn Sequences

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