Generative art

Martin McBride, 2020-07-26

This section covers generativepy, and open source system for creating generative art and mathematical illustrations and animations in Python.

General information

For general information on generativepy, take a look at these sections:

generativepy reference - the official reference documentation for generativepy.
generativepy tutorial - a generativepy tutorial.

Art with generativepy

Here is a set of tutorials illustrating various generative art techniques using generativepy.

Geometric art

See Geometric art or these links:

Cardioid string art

Fractals

See Fractals or these links:

Gingerbread man

Tinkerbell colour

Mandelbrot colour

Grammar based art

See Grammar based art of these links:

L system koch curve

Iterated function systems

See Iterated function systems or these links:

Popular tags

2d arrays abstract data type alignment and animation arc array arrays bezier curve built-in function callable object circle classes close closure cmyk colour comparison operator comprehension context context manager conversion creational pattern data types design pattern device space dictionary drawing duck typing efficiency else encryption enumerate fill filter font font style for loop function function composition function plot functools game development generativepy tutorial generator geometry gif gradient greyscale higher order function hsl html image image processing imagesurface immutable object index inner function input installing iter iterable iterator itertools l system lambda function len line linspace list list comprehension logical operator lru_cache magic method mandelbrot mandelbrot set map monad mutability named parameter numeric python numpy object open operator optional parameter or partial application path polygon positional parameter print pure function pycairo radial gradient range recipes rectangle recursion reduce rgb rotation scaling sector segment sequence singleton slice slicing sound spirograph sprite square str stream string stroke subpath symmetric encryption template text text metrics tinkerbell fractal transform translation transparency tuple turtle unpacking user space vectorisation webserver website while loop zip