Art & Code

This page is a jungle of links that I'm struggling to process myself. Some areas don't even have content in them, just an open space and a desire to fill it.

Artificial Life Generators

A-Life or Artificial Life is a field of computer simulation used by science and art to generate organic-like systems in the computer. Not even sure where to jump into the space. Some links below.

Concepts/simulations

• Cellular Automation a way of simulating organic systems digitally.
• Digital Organisms artificial life simulations.
• Nervegarden a Virtual Terrarium in Cyberspace.
• Morphogenisis is a type of generative art in which complex shape development.
• Groboto another great program that has recieved artificial life techniques. But its life is uncertain at the moment.
• Search for Generative art on github.

Math for Art

• graph theory
• game theory
• fractals
• cell automata
• structural modeling
• Julia Fractals
• Mark Zimmer's blog
• Interactive Geometry A mster list of software.
• Patterns from many sources.

Grid tools

• Gridlover
• Easygrid
• Vertical Rhythm
• Verticle Center
• Verticle Grid
• Fibonacci grid articles
• Renard numbers

Old Book Grids

• The Secret Law of Page Harmony This is one of the best aricles on book layout methods from Mideval to modern design.

WebTools

• Golden Ratio Typography
• Animation calculator for CSS

Web Color Tools

• Color Hunt is a free and open platform for color inspiration with thousands of trendy hand-picked color palettes

Web Animation Tools

• Spritely Animation Javascript library, lets you create Flash-like animations.
• Scene.js A 3D javascript engine

Artists and their tools

• Joshua Davis Iterative and generative art. Also has his own script libraries.
• His skillshare where he teaches his tools.
• his tools the Hype Framework deals with generative art.
• processing is a generative tool that brings art and programming together, it is also the code base for Arduino.
• D3JS A visualization javascript library.
• Protovis Another visualization script
• David li
• Trianglify generates triangular gradients.
• Generative art links Syntopia is a collection of blog posts and resources.
• Artists promote math

Art Organizations and Journals

• Creative Tech Week The hype: Creative Technology is transforming culture, design, and art with software, electronics and data.
• Harvest Works Founded as a not-for-profit organization by artists in 1977, Harvestworks has helped a generation of artists create new works using technology.
• Journal of Mathematics and the Arts search your local library for access.