Artist Inspired Creative Coding
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by Matt Kane - “Artist Inspired Creative Coding”
A lifelong student of museums, I often find myself walking galleries, studying exhibits and thinking about the art as mathematical equations. Challenging myself to write algorithms based on other artists not only makes me a better, more creatively thinking coder, but I also sometimes end up with a tool I'll use.
Sol Lewitt inspired digital tool
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Digital Study. Sol Lewitt inspired hatching tool
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Sol LeWitt, detail "All Single, Double, Triple, and Quadruple Combinations of Lines in Four Directions One-, Two-, Three- and Four-Part Combinations", 1969
Keith Haring inspired digital tool
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Digital Study. Lines following contours of neighbors. No touching!
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Keith Haring Untitled, 1984
Moholy Nagy
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Moholy Nagy "Composition Z-VIII", 1924