exploring the beauty of algorithms with generative art - talk

You love code. You also love art. You want to merge the two wonderful worlds, but it can be hard. How can we create art with code and make writing code an art? A screencast of a talk I gave at FOSSAsia 2016 in Singapore! This talk is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.5): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Links: Code: https://git.io/vaPxQ Slides: https://git.io/vaPxA Talk abstract: You love code. You also love art. You want to merge the two wonderful worlds, but it can be hard. How can we create art with code and make writing code an art? In comes generative art! Generative art is art created by an independent, non-human system, for example, art generated by algorithms. Remember screensavers from the 90s? Yeah, something along those lines. You'll learn how to create art in the browser with Processing.js. I'll demo the basics of animation and we'll explore how algorithmic and mathematical concepts such as recursion, tiling, and geometry can result in unexpectedly beautiful visuals. About the speaker: Sher Minn Chong is a front-end web engineer. Equal parts programmer and visual artist, she is enjoys the combination of both worlds, especially for the web. Her background spans rapid development at startups, coding education, and never graduated from Recurse Center. She is currently excited about creative coding, JavaScript technologies, and computer vision.