Since doing a module in university a couple of years ago, I’ve been really interested in Generative Art –

Generative art refers to art that has been generated, composed, or constructed in an algorithmic manner through the use of systems defined by computer software algorithms, or similar mathematical or mechanical or randomised autonomous processes.

Processing is probably the go-to language for artists these days, and it does the job really well, but as a Flash developer, I wanted to see what Actionscript could do.

There are a few people doing amazing visual work with Flash, but the most prolific and famous is the amazing Eric Natzke. You should go and check out his gallery right now.

Another guy making some awesome images in Mark Knol – aka – stroep.nl Mark likes to draw things with Actionscript.

Keith Peters (aka bit-101.com), has also done loads of fascinating actionscript based images, which you can see over in his “Art From Code” site. It’s not been active lately, as Keith’s moved into iPhone development – but he’s hoping to get back into Flash soon, so keep an eye on the page.

So it’s following in the path of these guys, that I’ve started playing around with generative art from Flash. Here’s a couple of images I’ve been working on –

If you’re interested, you should check out the Actionscript generated art group on Flickr.

Cheers.
Lawrie.