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02 Jan 2024 3 min read coding

Genuary 2024

This year’s Genuary code is here (I will update as I go through the prompts). My codepen gallery is here. I am hoping to play with symmetry the entire month. Day-31 – generative music (this runs slow on mobile and some machines) Day-30 – shaders Day-29 – Signed Distance Functions (if we keep trying

This year’s Genuary code is here (I will update as I go through the prompts). My codepen gallery is here. I am hoping to play with symmetry the entire month.

purple arcs with radial lines and circles

Day-31 – generative music

(this runs slow on mobile and some machines)

lava-like flow of color on black

Day-30 – shaders

blurry white and blue mandala

Day-29 – Signed Distance Functions (if we keep trying once per year, eventually we will be good at it!).

3 circles of gears with one gear highlighted with spokes coming from all of them making patterns

Day-28 – Skeuomorphism

many lines and circles creating a texture of dark purple and rose and tan lines and circles

Day-27 – Code for one hour. At the one hour mark, you’re done.

Video of coding is here.

mandala of purple mossy texture on a white background

Day-26 – Grow a seed

a mandala of many repeated jellyfish

Day-25 – If you like generative art, you probably have some photos on your phone of cool looking patterns, textures, shapes or things that you’ve seen. You might have even thought, “I should try to recreate this with code”. Today is the day.

Here is my inspiration (Jellies):

what looks like a knot of cornered rope with pointed light and dark background. there is rotational symmetry.

Day-24 – impossible objects

gif of rotating green lights made by shading a 32x32 square with blue and green

Day-23 – 32×32

points, lines and planes rotated - purple with 3d appearance and depth.

Day-22 – Point line plane

spiral with white an blue coloring of a bezier curve rotated

Day-21 – Use a library that you haven’t used before

(I used p5.bezier)

Day-20 – generative typography

iris-like mandala with white streaks on a dark canvas.

Day-19 – flocking

mandala of red, yellow, and blue circle

Day-18 – bahaus

islamic inspired art mandala with rose and gold

Day-17 – Inspired by islamic art

10,000 lotus petals

Day-16 – Draw 10 000 of something

mandala circle of small dots

Day 15 – Use a physics library.

I did not use a physics library. I tried – I didn’t like them, so I did this instead.

purple and turquoise mandala made with lines

Day 14 – Less than 1KB artwork.

star mandala

Day 13 – Wobbly function day

blue squiggly shape mandala

Day 12 – Lava lamp

woven yellow and orange mandala on purple background

Day 11 – In the style of Anni Albers (1899 to 1994)

hexagon arrangement in swirling 6 sided star

Day 10 – hexagonal

morse code for genuary placed many times streaking around in a mandala

Day 9 – ascii

turquoise mandala on dark blue created from rotated double pendulums

Day 8 – Chaotic system

gif of arcs turning and white circles moving in a different direction

Day 7 -Progress bar / indicator / loading animation.

mandala of many circles of muted colors

Day 6 – Screensaver.

circles made with white bookmark shapes on a dark background

Day 5 – In the style of Vera Molnár (1924-2023).

tiles showing circles and pattern shapes with blue hues

Day 4 – Droste Effect

circles in mandala pattern

Day 3 – Droste Effect

reflected strange attractor flower shape

Day 2 – No palettes.

This sketch is a meditation of haikus on Medium here.

blue and muted hue dots with radial symmetry on a dark background

Day 1 – Particles, lots of them.

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Sophia

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