Contents

List of artworks
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About this book
About the author
Introduction:
Generative art is easy
Order and chaos
Programming as poetry
The chaos artist

Part 1 Creative Coding

Chapter 1 Generative Art: In Theory and Practice: Not your father’s art form; The history of a new idea; The digital toolset; Summary
Chapter 2 Processing: A Programming Language: What is Processing?; Programmatic drawing 19; Structure, logic, and animation; Looping; Saving, publishing, and distributing your work; Summary

Part 2 Randomness and Noise

Chapter 3 The Wrong Way to Draw A Line: Randomness and not-so-randomness; Iterative variance; Naturalistic variance; Summary
Chapter 4 The Wrong Way to Draw a Circle: Rotational drawing; Case study: Wave Clock; Summary
Chapter 5 Adding Dimensions: Two-dimensional noise; Noisy animation; The third dimension; Summary

Part 3 Complexity

Chapter 6 Emergence: Emergence defined; Object-oriented programming; Summary
Chapter 7 Autonomy: Cellular automata; Simulation and visualization; Summary
Chapter 8 Fractals: Infinite recursion; Coding self-similarity; Exponential growth; Case study: Sutcliffe Pentagons; Summary