I never know how to feel about mathematically/programmatically generated art. De...

I can appreciate the technology behind it, but I still don't find it artistic or appealing. It's also amusing how the reaction to "I don't like any generative art I've seen" is "We'll then you clearly haven't seen this one." For whatever reason, I get the same reaction when I tell people I don't like beer. They insist I try their favorite beer. This strategy hasn't worked.

ThomPete · on March 29, 2015

I always think about the generation part as a a brush rather than the composition itself.

Once you know how to use it you can start to create meaningful compositions.

Look at a lot of the stuff Ben Fry and Casey Reas used to do with https://processing.org/

Ono-Sendai · on March 29, 2015

Check out our product here: http://chaoticafractals.com/

There are a lot of very aesthetic works: http://chaoticafractals.com/gallery

chubot · on March 29, 2015

A lot of these have very striking color schemes, e.g.:

http://chaoticafractals.com/art/FarDareisMai

Are these colors mathematically generated, or by a the artist?

Ono-Sendai · on March 29, 2015

The colour palette is selected by the artist. The mathematical rules governing the fractal then uses those colours, mixing together different colours from the palette based on the mathematical transformation chosen.

j2kun · on March 29, 2015

It's not clear to me where on the scale between photoshop and fully automated this is. Maybe you could elaborate? What is your workflow like?

Ono-Sendai · on March 29, 2015

You can get some idea of the workflow here: http://chaoticafractals.com/manual/tutorials/basic_gnarl

It's a combination of choosing the colour palette, selecting a set of mathematical transformations (and their associated weights), etc..

Chaotica is iterated function system software: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterated_function_system