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Making pretty pictures with code is fun. Try refreshing for a different picture every time. I've thought about trying to make some generative music, but it's a bit trickier to do. I made a little tune out of a strange attractor once that was pretty neat, but it just generated midi notes which is pretty limiting. Has anyone else here experimented with generative graphics or music? |
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Its devils music!!! Proof: |
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>ahem< Proof: |
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Sorry, what? |
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Oooh. Nice! |
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its rare that you can get one that's comparable to ep7s cover but yeah when you do it's pretty ill, yeah. thanks for the link |
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Thanks, yeah, I think I came somewhat close. The code isn't too crazy either. That's the cool thing about generative art: pretty simple rules can produce pretty rad results. |
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would it be possible to modify the code so that the output was higher rez? |
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yeah the main one (album covr) is menacing -- like some weird fucked up layer of trees or some kind of nebula, i love some of these random ones. i think it relates to the music, as far as , making curves out of straight lines, 3d shapes out of 1d shapes, |
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The applet is just using the built-in Java line drawing functions. I'm guessing if you want it higher res, that you want the lines to be thicker and anti-aliased, right? I'm not sure if there is a way to do nice-looking thick lines in Java without coding your own. Probably the best way to make a high-res version would be to rewrite it in ActionScript in Flash, using the nice vector-based lines. I don't know AS myself, and I don't have Flash, so I can't help you out. Feel free to use my java source however you like, though. |
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You made this right? It's very cool (refreshing ep7 one so far). You used Java right (I had to install missing java plugins for it to work). (basic algorithm = start at random spot (in the general center) and write a line in a random direction for random lengths, randomly changing direction slightly?) Is it fixed how many times its done, like 100 random ziggy lines per each? I'm a novice, right now I'm trying to make something like this (using text characters as pseudo geometric output): \\\ \-\ ||| //// /--/ |--| \\\\ (keeps outputting squares like that, only each next square varies in length and height (independently and out of phase), and also each next line alternates from /|\| characters at a decreasing/increasing rate, and possibly wall thickness of squares could change somehow too.) = gay |
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sketch is cooler. Seems the same but more frequent random direction changing, with forks, and more random number of total lines created per program. Randomness like this definately needs to be a much larger part of videogames I think. |
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# merry xmas w M w # h0h 0h0 $DIR_LEFT=0; $DIR_STRAIGHT1=1; $DIR_RIGHT=2; $DIR_STRAIGHT2=3; $DIR_COUNT=4; $dir = $DIR_LEFT; $lineCount = 0; $numLinesBeforeDirectionChange = 3; sub RandomBetween($$) { my $min = shift; my $max = shift; return int(rand($max - $min + 1)) + $min; } sub PrintBar() { if ($dir == $DIR_LEFT) { print "/"; } elsif ($dir == $DIR_RIGHT) { print "\\"; } else { print "|"; } } sub IncLine() { $lineCount++; if ($lineCount >= $numLinesBeforeDirectionChange) { $dir = ($dir + 1) % $DIR_COUNT; $lineCount = 0; } } sub MakeSquare() { my $width = RandomBetween(3, 10); my $height = RandomBetween(3, 8); $numLinesBeforeDirectionChange = RandomBetween(1, 5); # top line for (my $i = 0; $i < $width; $i++) { PrintBar(); } print "\n"; IncLine(); # middle lines for (my $j = 0; $j < $height - 2; $j++) { PrintBar(); for (my $i = 0; $i < $width - 2; $i++) { print "-"; } PrintBar(); print "\n"; IncLine(); } # bottom line for (my $i = 0; $i < $width; $i++) { PrintBar(); } IncLine(); print "\n"; print "\n"; } my $numBoxes = RandomBetween(5, 10); for (my $i = 0; $i < $numBoxes; $i++) { MakeSquare(); } |
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Indenting got fucked. Download here: |
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There used to be an applet on warprecords.com for the ep7 art, maybe it's still there but I don't know where it was. |
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oh yeah http://www.warprecords.com/ography/release.php?cat=WAPEP7 Click on 'microsite' Controls are 1-2-3-4-5 changes zoom arrow keys move around. |
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I'm sorry, I forgot to say I use python. Is this java code or something? Hopefully making that for me didn't take too much time. Whatever it is, it seems like you can just control pixels with code right off the bat. With python as far as I know, you have to import some 'pygame' or similar library and all this shit. (but chances are good that I'm too stupid to figure it out otherwise) |
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wait.. is this for the square program i just described or your ep7 one? i can read most of it, if it's mine can you somehow make it a program I can see like the ep7 one? |
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For me it says (but chances are good it's my own shit system at fault): Could't execute query: select distinct mc_master_cat_no from master_cats where mc_sort_order < and mc_sort_label = 'warp' and mc_sort_type = '' order by mc_sort_order desc limit 0,1. 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'and mc_sort_label = 'warp' and mc_sort_type = '' order by mc |
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It's perl code. You need to have perl installed and (from the command line) do this: C:\wmwsq> perl wmwsq.pl |
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I converted it to Python : Let me know if you have any questions about how it works, or problems running it. |
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lush, innit. i love ae art. |
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Fixed link to ep7 (click microsite in the top right) |
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Ha ha, cool. I envy your ability to create stuff so quickly and easily and on multiple platforms to boot. I was going to have it run forever and be less chunky/random. So it'd be more like pseudoanimation as it spits out each line (gradually gets longer/less long, and gradually gets taller/shorer (both out of phase)). Pretty wack but just arbitrary thing I made up to practice since I suck. Plus the 'animation' of tallness wouldn't work well (length would because it spits out fast output as horizontal lines) /// /-/ /-/ |-| |-| |-| \\\ \\\\\\\\\ \-------\ \-------\ \-------\ |-------| ||||||||| |||||| |----| |----| /----/ /----/ ////// ////////// |--------| |--------| |--------| \--------\ \\\\\\\\\\ \\\\\\\ |-----| /////// ||||||||| |-------| |-------| \-------\ \\\\\\\\\ \\\\\\ |----| |----| |----| /----/ ////// |
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fav+ |
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This sounds exactly like a listed item that would apear in a readme of a new program version. 'fixed bug here' Programmers put their programming paradigm into stuff they write all the time, like one of the essays here: http://www.paulgraham.com forget which, he said something like 'the set of all' in a way it wouldn't normally be used by non programming english speakers, bla bla bla |
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Yeah, well I've been programming for 16 years or so. It can be pretty slow and painful, but it's awesome to have the power to create pretty much anything you can imagine by typing in cryptic nonsense into a computer. Python is a good language to start with. Try playing around with some text output for a while, and you'll learn a lot. Then I'd suggest maybe learning ActionScript (which is the scripting language in Flash) if you want to create programmatic animations. My friend tells me you can use to compile ActionScript, and you don't even need the expensive Flash editor. (Of course, the editor would be nice if you want to do some hand-made animations as well.) I don't have any experience with this myself, but I'm planning on having a look at some point. |
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hmm, actionscript sounds interesting, thanks. |
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Update: I learned a bit of ActionScript by porting my ep7 applet to Flash: Cygnus: the Flash version is higher res. |
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ha ha, not quite the same ported (it spins around more, but is actually better looking that way). Definitions/functions mess me up in python. It's hard for me to intuitively make them from scratch so they'll work with eachother and I know what's happening. If you happen to have more fairly simple programs in python lying around, NOT object oriented, I might be able to study it. |
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hehe, nice. |
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