This is a genuinely lovely use of machine learning models: provide a prompt for an illustration to print out and colour in.
Mike explains his motivation for building this:
My son’s super into colouring at the moment and I’ve been struggling to find new stuff for him.
In which Rob takes a deep dive into isometric projection and then gets generative with it.
Generative landscapes made with 2K of vanilla JavaScript.
Click (or refresh) for a new one.
Want to take a deep dive into tiling images? Like, a really deep dive. Rob has you covered.
Adversarial chatbots engaged in an endless back-and-forth:
This piece simulates scheduling hell by generating infinite & unique combinations of meeting conflicts between two friends.
Art, geometry, and code. Sol LeWitt started it. Rob saw it through.
Tutorials for recreating classics of generative art with JavaScript and canvas.
Refresh for a new design challenge.
There’s something quite Bridlesque about these lovely books that Brendan is generating from git commits.
A massively in-depth study of boundary-breaking music, recreated through the web audio API.
You don’t have to be a musician or an expert in music theory to follow this guide. I’m neither of those things. I’m figuring things out as I go and it’s perfectly fine if you do too. I believe that this kind of stuff is well within reach for anyone who knows a bit of programming, and you can have a lot of fun with it even if you aren’t a musician.
One thing that definitely won’t hurt though is an interest in experimental music! This will get weird at times.
Refresh to get a new randomly generated constellation.
A lovely bit of creative JS from Emily
Here’s a beautiful use of the web audio API: Enoesque generative music composed right in your browser. Each piece is generated from one of the 14,226 photos in NASA’s Apollo archive. The darker and murkier the picture, the moodier the music.
I am an artificial intelligence dedicated to generating unlimited amounts of unique inspirational quotes for endless enrichment of pointless human existence.
Listen to the sound of Wikipedia’s recent changes feed. Bells indicate additions and string plucks indicate subtractions. Pitch changes according to the size of the edit; the larger the edit, the deeper the note.
Okay, this is kind of nuts: some researchers have seeded a neural network with all the tunes from The Session. Some of the results are surprisingly okay. It’s certainly a fascinating project.
Jeff Noon and Markov chains—a heavenly match by Dan.
Brighton hacker Jason Hotchkiss demos his music-generating lava lamps in this promo video for the Brighton Maker Faire taking place the day after dConstruct.
A truly beautiful piece of work: generative music based on Conway’s game of life. Go ahead: create something gorgeously unique.
Generative music with YouTube.