Jared Tarbell

I love the early generative artists: - Frieder Nake - Vera Molnar - Manfred Mohr More recently people like Casey Reas, who developed the language Processing, Jared Tarbell (https://complexification.net), and Anders Hoff (https://inconvergent.net) are the people I'd look at. Hoff works in Lisp if that's your thing. For a place to look at the history of generative art, the best resource is still http://dada.compart-bremen.de/

> Inspired by Jared Tarbell Such a huge part of my early dabbling with computers. A jewel of the early internet, along with the later http://complexification.net, though sadly most of the examples don't run any more due to both Flash (Levitated) and Java (Complexification) dying off. At least for Complexification, you can copy-paste the Processing .pde source to https://hello.processing.org/editor/#editor and see it run.

I'm always sad when I visit Jared Tarbell's sites (http://levitated.net and http://complexification.net) and the applets no longer work. They were really formative in my early and mid explorations of the internet.

I don't know how known it is but Jared Tarbell has an excellent gallery: http://www.complexification.net/gallery/ EDIT: nevermind, bio says he co-founded Etsy... he's probably well known

I was hoping it would mention Jared Tarbell, as I discovered his work back when he was making it on http://complexification.net, thanks to StumbleUpon (may it rest in peace). Too bad the article didn’t mention this site of his, but to be fair I didn’t know about levitated, so I was glad to learn that.

Some amazing generative art, done with Processing, here: http://complexification.net/gallery/ You can grab the source for these and play around with them, tweaking values to see how things work. One of my favorites is Sand Traveler. The underlying algorithm is relatively simple, but the results are stunning. These are presented as Java applets, but Processing 2.0 now lets you export code to JavaScript (processing.js). It also exports to Android apk files, so you can build Android apps with Processing.

I learned last week that one of the founders of Etsy is Jared Tarbell, the excellent computational artist (http://complexification.net/gallery/, http://www.levitated.net/). He wasn't mentioned in the article though, I wonder why.

Generative art is a fascinating space - it's in its infancy for sure - I've been getting into it this past year and wrote my first algorithm about a year ago: https://anemy.github.io/concentric/ Like all art, it comes down to who witnesses it, and how it makes them feel. However - there's a definite gap between seeing something in real life versus digitally which I'd like to see Naon bridge. There's a large community of plotters which are doing a good job of bringing generative art into the real world. Definitely worth checking out the twitter hashtag: https://twitter.com/hashtag/plottertwitter?src=hash Naon cranks out amazing compositions at an astounding rate, it makes me real happy to see him get some good exposure like this. One of the cofounders of Etsy, Jared Tarbell, is also a great artist and worth checking out: http://www.complexification.net/gallery/ If you'd like to see more generative works, the subreddit is a good starting place: https://www.reddit.com/r/generative/

https:// seems broken. Need to use: http://www.complexification.net/gallery/

Pixelated space invaders imagined as generative fractal: http://www.complexification.net/gallery/machines/invaderfractal/

This reminds me of the beautiful "substrate" screen saver: http://www.complexification.net/gallery/machines/substrate/

You could ask the original artist/author? "In July 2005, Jared co-founded Etsy, an online marketplace to buy and sell handmade goods" http://complexification.net/gallery/machines/substrate/ http://complexification.net/programmer.html

There's a (no longer updated) gallery using Processing at http://www.complexification.net/gallery/. It's quite old as well - ~10y at least

I'd say data visualisation, the kind of stuff that for example Mike Brondbjerg or Jared Tarbell do: https://www.behance.net/mikebrondbjerg http://www.complexification.net/gallery/

there's some beautiful work here, plus code http://www.complexification.net/gallery/

I was reminded of Substrate [1], which spawned mrdoob's version [2] and led to a WebGL 3D version [3] [1] http://www.complexification.net/gallery/machines/substrate/index.php [2] http://jsdo.it/mrdoob/xI3u/fullscreen [3] http://www.jabtunes.com/labs/boidsnbuildings/

Reminds me of Jared Tarbell's "Invader Fractal:" http://www.complexification.net/gallery/machines/invaderfractal/ (Jared also happens to be one of Etsy's co-founders...)

One of the better ones I've found is Tyler Hobbes [0]. I recently found the "Bridges Archive" online [1]. It's a goldmine of ideas (I won't link to them but they have tilings, space filling algorithms, multi-scale Truchet patterns and many more). I favor the ideas rather than the implementation as I already know how to program so you may do better with learning something like processing/p5.js [2]. In terms of raw ideas, I've found Jared Tarbell to be a huge inspiration [3] [4]. I'm sure I'll get lashed on here for the mere mention of NFTs but I've found there are consistently awesome generative art being displayed on Twitter for artists showing their work and advertising their NFTs for sale. One resource that I've found to be pretty consistently good is fxhash.xyz [5] [6]. Looking for #fxhash tags on Twitter will probably give you rich results. I also have my own NFTs whose source code I've released as CC0 if you want to take a look [7] (none are for sale right now) along with a half assed attempt at making a list of resources for generative art [8]. There's plenty of "awesome" generative art lists [9] as well as many examples and other projects on p5.js [2]. And of course there's always Reddit [10] [11]. Oh and "Coding Train" is deceptively deep, packing complex ideas in a kind of "cutesy" veneer but still managing to tackle topics that run the gamut of easy to incredibly difficult [12]. There's really too many resources to list. It depends on what level you're at.…

Is big. http://www.complexification.net/gallery/