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Explorations in Creative Coding
This document summarizes Eelco den Heijer's presentation on creative coding. It discusses different forms of creativity such as combinational, exploratory, and transformational creativity. Examples of creative coding projects are presented, including EvoArt which uses genetic programming to create evolutionary art, Arfunkel which uses functional programming to manipulate images, and Dichtfabriek which generates poetry using word sequences. Live coding is also discussed as a way to produce and perform code simultaneously. The presentation concludes that creative coding comes in many forms and is an enjoyable way to be creative with technology.
Explorations in Creative Coding
- 1. Explorations in Creative Coding SemanticWeb Outing VU University, Egmond aan Zee 5 April 2016 Eelco den Heijer
- 2. •What is Creativity? •Man-MachineCreativity •Creative Coding •Examples; EvoArt, Arfunkel, Dichtfabriek •Live Coding
- 3. eelco den heijer •Developer/ Architect/ Scrum Master • Part-time Researcher • MSc Cognitive Artificial Intelligence (Utrecht) • PhD at Computational Intelligence Group, VU, with Guszti Eiben (2009-2013)
- 5. What is Creativity? •Margaret Boden - Creativity and Art: Three Roads to Surprise • Combinational - unusual combination of usual ideas • Exploration - like local search in concept space • Transformational - transforming a concept in concept space, ‘changing the rules’
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- 21. Example 1: EvoArt •Autonomous Evolutionary Art • PhD research, 2009-2013 • Genetic Programming engine • Multiple Genotypes
- 22. EvoArt • Computational Aesthetics •Several functions to assess various ‘aspects of beauty’ • Multiple Genotypes; expression, SVG, Glitch • Autonomous EvoArt system (vs. Interactive Evo Art)
- 28. Example 2: Arfunkel •Art Functions • Research project in Functional Programming in Java 8 • Collection of building blocks that act on Images • Generators • Filters • Merge/Combine
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- 31. Functions • Various blendfunctions • Various colour space functions • All functions act on images or on image functions • All functions act as Lego blocks
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- 34. Mirroring • Simple horizontal,vertical mirror • Sort of Kaleidoscope effect
- 35. Workflow ex. 1 GetImage Get Image Blend Recolour Solarize
- 36. Workflow ex. 2 GetImage Get Image Blend Recolour Mirror Left/Right Recolour
- 43. Arfunkel • Between Combinationaland Exploration Creativity • Between Parametric Design and Generative Art • Will not ‘break the rules’, since workflow is now hard coded • Next step is making the workflow dynamic • Introduce REPL - Read Eval Print Loop
- 44. Example 3: Dichtfabriek •Dichtfabriek: Poetry Factory • Proof of Concept • Collaboration between me and Wouter van der Land • Built in Python
- 45. Dichtfabriek • Kind of“Poetry Remix engine” • Indexes poetry, stores word sequences (Markov chain) • Produces a number of poetry forms: • snowball (based on anagrams) • limerick • haikus • ABAB
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- 47. Word pairing • “Thequick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” • “The quick” + “quick brown” + “brown fox”, etc • Create index in memory • Create phrases starting with last word, using markov chain index • Create indices use different corpora ==> remixing
- 48. 'bout 'bout itbout it is een sappie ben dan hij komt vjezze oeh Jappie boy vaderlay low sappie opgelucht plat ja ik heb ondoeltreffender alle schoon prijs aan t beter zangers rijk juweel in t hare kostgangers in liefdes almacht herdenkt de haardracht gegeven hun hulde aan windvangers Source: William Shakespeare (Sonnetten) Source: Jeugd vanTegenwoordig
- 49. Formats & Functions •Different templates for poetry forms Limerick, Haiku, SMS, Snowball, etc. • Easily implemented in Python • Small functions: • Syllables (language specific) • Groene Boekje (Dutch Word List) • Anagram • Rhyme
- 50. is de clubhuilen lucht kwam ineens changde z'n holler at ya boy aan de stervling steeds aan den gloed en zinneloos de schuld en voorproeft Source: William Shakespeare (Sonnetten) Source: Jeugd vanTegenwoordig
- 51. Dichtfabriek • Still Proofof Concept • Real fun to do, very short development time • Generative Art, Combinational Creativity • Python is excellent for Creative Coding • Currently: Dutch only, 100% form, 0% Content • Many points of extension for future work
- 52. Live Coding • Producingand Performing at the same time • Similar to jazz improvisation • Incremental changes • REPL: • Read, Evaluate, Print Loop • LISP, Chuck, Impromptu • Algorave
- 55. Conclusions • Many formsof Creative Coding • Creative Coding is totally fun • Choice of Platform or Language is important • How much creativity do you want to contribute? • Or: • How much control do you want to keep?
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