Powagirrrls Day

International Women’s Day was created by the United Nations. Hugs and high fives mandatory today for all the women in your life.

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Women who are my heroes in the creative industry? View a collection of the ones I have gathered over the years.

Rocking it still today?

Designboom has been around since 1999. Birgit launched it just a year after us. It has been striving and gathering not only quality content but a large readership as well. Its appreciation keeps on growing.

Well deserved too imo.

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The Jealous Creator was launched in 2009 by Danielle Krysa. Her self-depracating jealousy has led her to featuring projects...

A strange kind of physical reality

A long-form generative art project coming to fxhash in partnership with FAB DAO on 11th Jan 2024.
This series is inspired, in the abstract, by the images I visualise when reading about quantum theory. Particularly thoughts of particles spreading out as waves and then collapsing into particles again at a moment of interaction. At the quantum scale, classical ideas of space and form come apart, replaced by concepts, probability and mathematics. Yet I cannot help but imagine tiny structures. There are moments when it feels like, if I concentrated closely enough or reached out in just the right way,...

Netdiver Mag relaunch °

People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.
—anonymous

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Curation is my passion—after investing 10 years on the now defunct Ello platform—where I curated the Design community..

.. and a personal profile where I featured a mix of design projects and abstract art..

I am coming back to my baby: Netdiver Mag!

See ya soon. xo

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I’m always on the lookout for new projects: submit yours to be featured.

Meaningless

https://amygoodchild.substack.com/embed

Meaningless is my ArtBlocks debut, dropping on Tues 30th May 2023. This project has been a journeyyyy and in this article I’ll talk through how the project works and roam around some conceptual thoughts.

You can see the project live here.

Early Computer Art in the 50’s & 60’s

https://amygoodchild.substack.com/embed

Computing and creativity have always been linked. In the early 1800’s when Charles Babbage designed the Analytical Engine, his friend Ada Lovelace wrote in a letter that, if music could be expressed to the engine, then it “might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.” [1]

Midjourney takes on Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings

https://amygoodchild.substack.com/embed

Sol LeWitt’s ‘Wall Drawings’ aren’t actually drawings at all but, rather, instructions for drawings. These instructions have been implemented in many ways, by many different people, revealing how they are both prescriptive and ambiguous. Control over the final output lies somewhere between the instruction giver and the instruction follower.

A few weeks ago I used AI chatbot ChatGPT to implement the instructions, first using GPT-3 and then using GPT-4. Continuing my mission to use AI tools for things they really weren’t designed for and aren’t very good at, in this article I’ll be using AI image generation tool...

AI Generations: ChatGPT-3 vs ChatGPT-4 on Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings

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About six weeks ago, I used ChatGPT to implement Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings. If that doesn’t mean anything to you, this article explains what’s going on and contains ChatGPT outputs compared to human drawings.

In that article, I used GPT-3, which was all that was available at the time. In this one, I’m trying out the newly released GPT-4.

Let’s compare and contrast.

Note: here are the GPT-4 p5js editor sketches and here are the GPT-3 sketches. The code for each is also linked under the images.

Parametric Art Systems

https://player.vimeo.com/video/771241731

Parametric Art Systems from Denis Kozlov on Vimeo.

The video spans about a decade of work and much more of research. Below I’ve gathered some links providing additional details, examples and explanations.

More videos:
vimeo.com/211742962 - Procedural Aircraft Design Toolkit
vimeo.com/703402772 - Procedural Creature Generator

The key article covering my vision, process and approach. I’ve notably advanced in each since the time of writing, but still find it largely relevant:
the-working-man.org/2018/04/procedural-bestiary-and-next-generation.html

A general overview of the technology involved (at the time of writing my primary 3D tool being Houdini). No prior knowledge required:
the-working-man.org/2017/04/procedural-content-creation-faq-project.html

The initial 2015 essay noticed by ACM SIGGRAPH:
the-working-man.org/2015/04/on-wings-tails-and-procedural-modeling.html

While the above links mostly focus on...

Forecast

Forecast is a long-form generative art project coming to fxhash on 16th Feb 2023. This article contains info about techniques I used, and some rambling about concepts and emotions.

You can see the project live on fxhash here and explore the variations before it drops.

Using ChatGPT to implement Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings

https://amygoodchild.substack.com/embed

Sol LeWitt was an artist who worked across many mediums but is probably most famous for his Wall Drawings series. These artworks aren’t actually drawings at all but, rather, instructions for drawings.

The instructions have been implemented in many ways, by many different people, revealing how they are at once prescriptive and ambiguous. Control over a final output lies somewhere between the instruction giver and the instruction follower. The idea popped into my head to put these instructions into ChatGPT, and ask for p5js sketches.