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Generative Art

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The Environmental Cost of CryptoArt

The Environmental Cost of CryptoArt

I want to talk a little bit about the environmental cost of blockchain technologies - and in particular the recent gold rush around crypto-art and NFTs. I've seen a lot of crazed excitement about this around my networks, and I think it's important to have all the information before you

Cistercian Plotter Postcards

Cistercian Plotter Postcards

I've put together a limited series of four plotter postcards for the Feb 2021 Plotter Postcard Exchange [https://twitter.com/paulgb/status/1358448689673621510]. They use a numbering system developed by Cistercian monks in the 13th Century [https://mobile.twitter.com/MathematicsUCL/status/1356558846093914114], where numbers up to 10,000 can

2020 in Review: Generative & Data Art

2020 in Review: Generative & Data Art

This the second of three end-of-year roundups that I'm writing about my work in 2020, covering information design [https://blog.duncangeere.com/2020inreview-informationdesign/], generative & data art and community building [https://blog.duncangeere.com/2020inreview-communitybuilding/]. I’ll be talking about what I’ve created over the course of the past year,

Generative Postcards

Generative Postcards

Earlier this year, I sent a set of generative postcards to subscribers of my newsletter living all around the world. The postcards were all unique, their design generated by the address of the recipient and their answer to questions about their favourite kind of weather and time of day. From

What I Learned From 31 Days of Generative Inktober Sketches

What I Learned From 31 Days of Generative Inktober Sketches

During the month of October 2020, I created 31 pieces of generative art – one a day – from a list of prompts [https://blog.duncangeere.com/content/images/2020/10/2020promptlist.jpg] published by the folks at Inktober [https://inktober.com/]. Normally people draw their artworks in a notebook by hand,

Chillplots

For several months, over on my Plottervision YouTube channel [https://www.youtube.com/c/plottervision], I've been hosting semi-regular streams that I call "Chillplots". Pen plotters are very satisfying to watch, so I figured it'd be fun to show my Axidraw V3/A3 pen plotter doing its thing in real-time.

Ekistics: An Exhibition of Utopian Pen Plotter Art

Ekistics: An Exhibition of Utopian Pen Plotter Art

Ekistics is the the science of human settlements, of how we fit into our environments, and how those environments affect us. The term was coined in 1942 by Greek archictect and town planner Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinos_Apostolou_Doxiadis], who developed a set of 15

Streamlined Generative Art

Streamlined Generative Art

I've spent some time over the last few days streamlining my generative art process. I would like there to be as little friction as possible between having an idea and actually starting coding. I've created a template folder, which contains the basic libraries I use - Rune.js [http://runemadsen.

From the Archive: Structure de Quadrilatéres

From the Archive: Structure de Quadrilatéres

Back in May 2018, I attended OpenVisConf in Paris, and I took the opportunity to visit the "Artistes et Robots" [https://www.grandpalais.fr/fr/evenement/artistes-robots] exhibition at the Grand Palais. I saw a pen plotter artwork artwork by Vera Molnár there that really struck me, titled Structure de

Height Noise

I understand that many people fall in love with Perlin noise when they first learn about it. It did win an Oscar [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Perlin], after all. But why use a simulation of reality, when you can just use reality instead? Let's back up for a

A Weekend With a Plotter

A Weekend With a Plotter

It was pretty good timing that my plotter arrived just before the Easter weekend. I had a full four days to experiment with it and start to get to grips with how it works. Here are my experiences. Unboxing and Setup I ordered my Axidraw V3/A3 from Robotshop.eu

A Wild Plotter Appears!

A Wild Plotter Appears!

I'm extremely excited to say that I'm now the proud owner of a pen plotter. Specifically, the Axidraw V3/A3 [https://shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/890#]. I had a grand plan [https://blog.duncangeere.com/tenday-notes-22-31-march-2020/] to save up money slowly over time to buy it, but I sold some

Sketchbook Pages #5

Sketchbook Pages

Sketchbook Pages #5

Oops! It's been more than a month since I last published sketchbook pages. My only excuse is that I've been caught up in generative art [https://blog.duncangeere.com/tag/generative-art/] instead. As such, here are four sketchbook pages inspired by the #generativedice hashtag [https://twitter.com/hashtag/GenerativeDice] on

Mountain Drive

I spent a chunky part of the last 24 hours or so learning about noise. Specifically, about Perlin noise [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlin_noise] - a way to generate random numbers that feel more organic and less, well, random. When I learn something I like to use that

Beachside 1

My generative art skills are progressing faster than they might otherwise, thanks to all the time freed up that I'd normally be spending hanging out with other humans. Every cloud and all that. Here's my latest piece, which employed a bunch of techniques I've not used before. > View this post

Smoulder 1-5

I was making some generative versions of what I wanted my upcoming Carbon in Context graphic to vaguely look like. Then I put in some ridiculous values for the fun of it. One blur filter later, and I've got a set of images that capture how climate change feels instead.

Sharing Generative Sketches

Sharing Generative Sketches

I've registered an Instagram account for my generative art sketches. Go check out @vhfseizures [https://www.instagram.com/vhfseizures/]. I'm not especially wild about using Instagram. Every third post in my feed is an ad these days, and often a crappy one at that. But it's a good place to

Generative Design

Generative Design

Last week I ordered a new book, and yesterday it arrived. Generative Design [http://www.generative-gestaltung.de/2/] is a guide to creating generative art using the P5.js library. It includes a gentle tutorial on how to get started, but also a bunch of "recipes [http://www.generative-gestaltung.de/

Replicated Territories

Replicated Territories

The other day I saw this great bit of plotter work on Twitter, and loved the look, so I wanted to see if I could replicate something similar digitally. > Territories #axidraw [https://twitter.com/hashtag/axidraw?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] #processing [https://twitter.com/hashtag/processing?src=hash&