Matt Pearson

Matt Pearson is a creative coder and sometime writer. A perpetual freelancer, he has donned his coding gloves for clients such as London’s National Portrait Gallery, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Perth Arts Festival, the BBC, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Vancouver Museum of Anthropology, Paramount Pictures, and the UK government. He lives in Brighton UK, where he shares a house with a number of small blonde children, a collection of MacBooks, and probably the most beautiful woman Wolverhampton ever produced. You can find more of his incessant babbling at http://zenbullets.com.

books by Matt Pearson

Generative Art

  • June 2011
  • ISBN 9781935182627
  • 240 pages
  • printed in color
  • Available translations: Japanese

Generative Art presents both the techniques and the beauty of algorithmic art. In it, you'll find dozens of high-quality examples of generative art, along with the specific steps the author followed to create each unique piece using the Processing programming language. The book includes concise tutorials for each of the technical components required to create the book's images, and it offers countless suggestions for how you can combine and reuse the various techniques to create your own works.