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Most of what you find on this site will be an archive of my work that I have done over the last number of years.

CC Framework Releases, Strange Attractors and Generating Color Palettes

First published on Substack Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive. - Jhumpa Lahiri First of all! Thanks for continuing to be great supporters in readership and I hope you are always finding something new and interesting to read or learn. Programming Differential Growth Program amazing, complex, and chaotic patterns via differential growth. Differential growth creates a chaotic system that can be used to model biological processes....

May 8, 2024 · 4 min · 737 words · Chris Ried

Doing Nothing, Creative Freedom and Airfoil - Tutorial

First published on [Substack}(https://open.substack.com/pub/generative/p/doing-nothing-creative-freedom-and?r=58kr3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web) Creativity is the fragrance of freedom. - OSHO Hello fellow readers and greetings to all who have recently come across this newsletter. I appreciate your support through reading this little newsletter in light of so many other interesting things out there. So a few thoughts I’ve been thinking about recently … Individualism is a complex concept with many facets and profound implications for our psyche. The freedom it offers is particularly cherished by artists and those displaying creativity....

April 19, 2024 · 6 min · 1075 words · Chris Ried

Your Brain On Art, Plotters, and Veoluz

First published on Substack Creativity is a continual surprise. - Ray Bradbury Hello All, Welcome all who have recently subscribed in the last couple weeks. I am sovery grateful that you are all excited about this little practice of ours called creative coding. Also, I’ve been putting together a little Github document on content creators who are doing creative coding tutorials. This is an in progress but I hope you can check them out and find either software or projects that interest you to learn new things!...

January 31, 2024 · 5 min · 945 words · Chris Ried

Artist as Inventor, Max Meets GL and Organ Pipe Physics

This was first published on Substack Creativity is an intelligent escape from the perceived limits. - SANDEEP KAKKAR I recently finished reading “Artist as Inventor.” Although it’s an academic work that requires effort to digest, its arguments stand out. Primarily, it asserts that art has consistently advanced technology, suggesting a kinship rather than a division between the two. It also emphasizes the crucial role artists play in technology advancement through tool experimentation....

January 15, 2024 · 5 min · 981 words · Chris Ried

Noisy SVGs, Dynamic Wearables, and 2024 Predictions

First published on Substack AS AN INNOVATOR, YOU NEED TO BE AWARE OF HOW TRADITIONS, HABITS AND BIAS CAN ACT AS BARRIERS TO ACCEPTING NEW IDEAS. - MAX MCKEOWN Has been previously posted on Substack. Happy Holidays, We are just about to enter a new year! 😱😱😱 This year flew by much faster than expected, which in hindsight isn’t surprising. It does always bring a time of reflection and goal setting**....

December 27, 2023 · 8 min · 1693 words · Chris Ried

Pixels as Code, Lindenmayer Systems, and Crumpled Paper

First published on Substack Creativity can impact some sort of CHANGE in the WORLD. But we must first embrace pure DIFFERENCES and work together for a common cause. - Henry Johnson Jr Hi my Friends! First of all I want to thank all of you! We’ve passed 2000 subscribers to this newsletter and I can only thank you all so much for taking the time to subscribe. You don’t know how much it means to know that you are excited about...

November 30, 2023 · 5 min · 1015 words · Chris Ried

Variable Fonts, Neural Graphic Primitives and Flash-backs

First published on Substack Admiring a creative soul at work is almost as satisfying as making your own paintings. E.A. Bucchianeri This weekend I was able to spend some time looking over some of the old Masters of Flash. These books were huge inspirations in my early teens to come to realize that computers were powerful enough to explore new worlds using code. The web creatives of the day and it’s just nostalgic to flip through these....

September 24, 2023 · 5 min · 975 words · Chris Ried

Live Coding Quilts, OpenSCAD, and the Tale of the Subpixel Zoo

First published on Substack Developing the skill of creativity, like with any other skill, takes time. Do devote time to creativity. Honor its flow and its magic. Allow it to become your Life Force. Train Creativity daily. -Natasa Pantovic Nuit Disclaimer: All in progress work.. just documenting the work here.. In my previous discussion, I shared my current artistic endeavors, which involves playing with 3D objects and creating generative abstract sculptures that I would like to 3D print....

August 27, 2023 · 6 min · 1100 words · Chris Ried

Organic Architecture, Automation, and Poisson Flow

First published on Substack Very well then! I’ll write, write write. He let the words soak into his mind and displace all else. - Richard Matheson Automation: Animation Engine for Creative Coding Automaton is an animation engine for creative coding. While you’re doing creative coding, doing time-based animation by code sometimes causes you so much pain. This project provides a framework and its GUI to connect your coding pieces with animations....

August 4, 2023 · 3 min · 570 words · Chris Ried

Reading Deeply, Modeling 3D Patterns and SVG Paths

Originally posted on Substack Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder. -Austin Kleon Good morning friends! I want to thank you for your continued support! I want to make a few points on reading deeply and how it might relate in creative coding / generative art. We have past the apex of popularity when it comes to generative art. It will be a fascinating era of history in the future that will bring some interesting insights into understanding creativity and market forces....

July 17, 2023 · 6 min · 1144 words · Chris Ried