Caligraft is a nicely excecuted collection of typographic experiments built in Processing. There is a nice variety of work here, and it’s an effective study on typographic form in a code-based medium. Check it out.

At the beginning there was nothing. And now there is something.

At the beginning there was nothing. And now there is something.

I promised during Thursday’s talk that I would provide a resource list for the things that I talked about. Here goes:

 Here are the artists that I mentioned in the beginning of the talk:

• Manfred Mohr
• Jean-Pierre Hebert
• Roman Verostko
• Casey Reas
• Ben Fry
• Lia
• Golan Levin
• Marius Watz
• Alison Mealey
• Jared Tarbell
• Robert Hodgin

This is my Canvas Class, which I demoed briefly.

As promised on Thursday, here is version 0.1 of my Canvas Class, which makes the process of drawing to a BitmapData object and rendering to screen a little bit easier.I will be releasing another version later in the week with some nice effects incorporated, but this one is the bare bones version. To use it, simply import the Class and create an instance of it. Then any time you want to draw any movie to the canvas, call the etch method:

import com.blprnt.genart.*

my_canvas = new Canvas(_root);

my_canvas.etch(my_mc, true); 

I’m sitting in a cafe a few blocks from the train station in Seattle waiting to head home. I spoke yesterday at FlashForward to an audience of about 500 people, who actually seemed to stay awake as I rambled on about Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks.

 Thanks to everyone who attended - it was very rewarding to talk to a lot of you after the session. If you have comments (good or bad), please feel free to e-mail me, and to give feedback to Lynda.com.

New software from Leonardo Solaas added to the exhibition.