Awesome Generative Art

Manually curated collection of Generative Art resources, tools and shiny things.

Contents

• Tools
  • Visual programming languages
  • Frameworks, Libraries, Engines, Languages
  • VJing software
  • Codecs
  • Other tools
  • Hardware
  • Sound programming languages
• Learning Resources
  • Books
  • Courses
• Video Channels
• Selected artists
• Communities
• Work
• Events
• Press

Tools

Visual programming languages

• vvvv [Win]
• Touch designer [Win]
• Max [Mac, Win]
• Pure Data [Mac, Win, Linux]
• Quartz Composer [Mac]
• Vuo [Mac]

Frameworks, libraries, engines, languages

• Processing [Mac, Win, Linux]
• OpenFrameworks [Mac, Win, Linux, iOS, Android]
• Cinder [Mac, Win, Linux, iOS, Android]
• three.js [Web]
• Paper.js [Web]
• p5.js [Web]
• Scriptographer
• Unity [Mac, Win]

Vjing software

• VDMX [Mac]
• Resolume [Mac, Win]
• Modul8 [Mac]
• CoGe VJ [Mac]
• MadMapper [Mac]

Codecs

• DXV codec [Mac, Win]
• HAP codec [Mac]

Other tools

• Syphon [Mac]
• Spout [Win]
• Vezér [Mac]
• Mitti [Mac]
• D3

Sound programming languages

• SuperCollider
• Csound
• ChucK
• TidalCycles
• Sonic Pi
• Reaktor

Hardware

• Arduino
• Raspberry Pi

Learning Resources

Books

• Generative Design
• Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers, Second Edition
• Make: Getting Started with Processing, Second Edition
• Learning Processing, Second Edition: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction
• The Nature of Code: Simulating Natural Systems with Processing
• Visualizing Data
• The SparkFun Guide to Processing
• Processing: Creative Coding and Generative Art in Processing 2
• Processing for Visual Artists: How to Create Expressive Images and Interactive Art
• Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art (Foundation)
• The Essential Guide to Processing for Flash Developers
• Programming Interactivity
• Generative Art
• Algorithms for Visual Design Using the Processing Language
• Data-driven Graphic Design: Creative Coding for Visual Communication
• Making Things Talk: Using Sensors, Networks, and Arduino to see, hear, and feel your world
• Making Things See: 3D vision with Kinect, Processing, Arduino, and MakerBot
• Rapid Android Development: Build Rich, Sensor-Based Applications with Processing
• Processing 2: Creative Programming Cookbook
• Processing 2: Creative Coding Hotshot
• 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
• Getting Started with Arduino: The Open Source Electronics Prototyping Platform (Make)
• Building Wireless Sensor Networks: with ZigBee, XBee, Arduino, and Processing
• Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers
• Aesthetic Computing
• Analog In, Digital Out: Brendan Dawes on Interaction Design
• Einführung ins Programmieren mit Processing (De)
• Processing - eine Einführung in die Programmierung (De)
• Programming for Artists (Ru) FREE

Courses

• Creative Programming for Digital Media & Mobile Apps
• Interactive Data Visualization with Processing
• Projects for Interactive Data Visualization with Processing
• openFrameworks Tutorial Series
• The Arduino Platform and C Programming
• Interfacing with the Raspberry Pi
• Getting started with Augmented Reality
• Creative Coding
• Survey of Music Technology
• Learn to Code Electronic Music Tools with Javascript
• Machine Learning for Musicians and Artists
• Machine Learning for Artists
• Advanced JS: Natural Simulations
• The Coding Train by Daniel Shiffman

Websites

• Creative Applications Network
• OpenProcessing
• Create Digital Music/Motion

Selected artists

• Featured / United Visual Artists
• Anton Marini aka vade
• Robert Hodgin aka flight404

Communities

• Generative Art Slack

Video Channels

• AUDIO-VISUAL PERFORMANCE
• LeCollagiste VJ group on Vimeo
• TouchDesigner group on Vimeo
• Processing group on Vimeo
• MadMapper group on Vimeo
• Syphon group on Vimeo

Work

• Job board on creativeapplications.net
• vj booking

Events

• OFFF
• Resonate Festival
• The Gray Area Festival
• FIBER Festival
• Mapping Festival
• Eyeo Festival
• NODE
• MUTEK
• Live Performers Meeting
• Berlin Atonal
• Ars Electronica
• Signal Festival
• La Fête des Lumières

Press

• HOLO magazine
• Make magazine
• The MagPi magazine

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