creative coding or generative design

In the past few years, with all the cgi trends it turns out that computer graphics are just becoming started. ICE Age, Madagascar and Avatar shows what super computers can render if you have enough processors and time. But there is another trend. It’s called creative coding or generative design. There are just a few implementations yet. But the results are pretty cool. My tree is just a few lines of code and represents a binary tree. And yes it’s not that amazing graphic work. The IDE called Processing, and the Language is Java. The application by the MIT is a simple to use IDE and rendering engine. I couldn’t find any C# implementation yet. But maybe in the future there will also be a C# app rendering in WPF available. You may ask, why is this so cool. So i just wanted to show you a few graphics done with that software.

This is a image rendering the most famous organizations and people from the year 1985 – 2009. The code is done by Jer Thorp via the New York Times API and JSON. So i guess you get an good idea of what is possible with that software. I found another two projects you should have a closer look at.

  

Isn’t that great stuff? If only i have more time, and somebody would pay me for that. That would be cool. :-)
Guess what i think there will be more posts on this topic here.