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Adam genlight

@generativelight

7 months

a generative scribble maker

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

2 years

a generative fairy-tale book made entirely in p5js

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

'etched' clouds in #p5js

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

2 years

generative castles - nothing handdrawn, all in #p5js . #generativeart

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

3 months

really in love with this system. will be my best work to date.

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

2 years

generative castles made with p5js - not a single thing hand-drawn or manually placed. this might be my favorite thing i've ever made. #creativecoding #NFT

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

hidden valleys as seen through the window of a never ending train ride made in p5js #generativeart feels good to be posting WIPs again

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

9 months

behind the scenes of generative art a flower...

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

i think my latest p5js algorithm accidentally revealed where they make Hidden Valley Ranch

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

5 months

10,000+ responsive, generative, infinitely composable flowers surprise drop soon 👀 no further details cuz that's no fun

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

2 years

a fully generative village-maker made entirely in #p5js random output below...

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

3 months

it took re-writing the code from scratch 10 times over nearly 12 months, but it's all worth it. endless possibilities with this now. and so much fun. generative (sometimes primordial) landscapes. trying to thread the line between abstract and figurative as much as possible.

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

2 years

YOU are going to make a piece of generative art right now in 10 minutes. No watching tutorials, no downloading software. Just your browser and 21 lines of code. By the end you’ll have a basic, but fun abstract generative art collection like this. #generativeart

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

3 months

finally! a little breakthrough on texture for these generative mountain ranges

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

please tell me i am the first person to ever put tiny towers and knights in a flow field?!? thought this would be so stupid, but now i love it #generativeart in p5js

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

infinite vineyards made entirely in p5js so much fun! #generativeart

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

10 months

12 months 5 from-scratch rewrites 10k+ tiny knights <1 second to render A Daydream for Libby - a generative, collectively crafted, always-changing fairy tale made in p5js - releasing end of July* * give or take a week

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

i'm going to release this soon #generativeart

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

3 months

rainbow mountain range

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

5 months

growing generative flowers again

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

11 months

a tiny sketch made with tiny code

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

i love the surprise of generative art left is an 'expected output' that i literally sketched and envisioned before writing the code right is a 'bug' that i could have never imagined or thought up, yet it is my favorite output of the series to-date so foreboding and dark

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

fully connected algorithmic, multi-page fairy tales in p5js! not the most eloquent yet, but i can now make these stories both generative and consistent / interesting across pages. the below is 2 pages from a *single mint*; each mint will be a 4-5 page interactive book

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

2 months

favorite? (a) . (b) (c) . (d)

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

2 years

zoom in for a surprise #generativeart

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

7 months

lil generative vineyard on a lake i wrote the initial code for this in a mad 1-2 hour sprint on an airplane while the baby was sleeping it is wildly inefficient - each hill is made of thousands and thousands of lines instead of just a simple filled shape, similar to real dirt

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

3 months

i dont want to spam WIPs too much, but this transparent / de-bug view is really getting me rn

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

4 months

2024 is about tiny generative hills and a big lake

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

facing an interesting challenge i've yet to run into. i love every output. truly none are bad (imo). but none are surprising either. i need to find ways to increase the chaos. + the shrubbery and houses need a lot of work. #generativeart

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

2 years

i have bad news. i opened #p5js this morning and found my castles bitterly divided and fighting. i blame myself for not refactoring the code earlier. #generativeart

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

2 years

gn. one of the earliest outputs from my new generative castles system made entirely in #p5js

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

18 days

spent an hour working on color but then our daughter walks in and says "no. i want pink." she's right as always

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

2 years

lift and fold

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

9 months

a tiny town at dawn in ~2 weeks

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

you can never spend enough time on the details! definitely dropping in January, excited to share with you all. #generativeart

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

A Fundamental Dispute will launch very, very soon (not today tho). You can put on notifications if you’d like, I won’t tweet until then. I’m trying to DM everyone who asked to be notified but there are just too many - I’m sorry if I’m not able to reach you, truly.

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

and it has a name! 'A Fundamental Dispute' should be done with final details this week not planning on doing any marketing. DM me if you'd like to be notified of when it releases (will be on Eth).

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

9 months

ahh so cool. the odds of this happening are so small two towers, separated by a raised land bridge with an army crossing the beauty of randomness!

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

8 months

wow! cannot believe it. so grateful / thankful to you all. i hope you love your story. i can't wait to go through all of the outputs with Libby.

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

what in the world have i made? tried making a mountain range generator and ended up with this very strange system sculptures? trophies? alien ships?

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

0% royalties btw - your piece is your piece, not mine. i simply cannot believe these numbers tho - 175 eth?!?!?!

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

i'm now trying to find increasingly silly things to throw in a flow field big or small?

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

11 months

something about this one #generativeart

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

YES so much more to add, but i really love this 10/10 would print #generativeart

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

6 months

tiny generative families

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

3 months

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

3 months

why do these remind me of Evangelion Angels?

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

3 months

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

doing a little creative palette cleanser study no webGL, just 9 lines to make an isometric shape in p5js

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

8 months

every piece is an infinitely unique story... but not just digitally. key commands allow you to remove the color, texture, and story of each piece. i hope you paint, draw, and write your own story with loved ones. going live on Monday at 1 PM CT!

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

i've gotten a few requests for a discord and my friends @CircolorsDAO were nice enough to open a channel there if you'd like a dedicated space to discuss future projects or anything with my work, there's a channel called 'genlight' where i'll be doing that link below:

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

3 months

in most systems, i find that either adding detail or removing detail is much easier to do. what's so interesting about this one right now is that both are working.

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

Making a quick valentines day print for my wife... What's the corniest caption you can think of?

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

so close to done. probably 2nd week of January. lots of tweaking of variables now. hardest part is removing a few that i love that don't fit the overall theme. best part is finding new variations i hadn't thought possible (like the hills below). #generativeart

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

A Fundamental Dispute is officially live (link below). A fully on-chain, completely generative exploration of clouds and landscapes. This has been a labor of love. Excited to see what outputs come out of the machine.

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

really interesting AFD just changed hands i really like the hint of white at the top of the clouds this background was inspired by elementary school doodling on graph paper

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

7 months

chromie squi--- i mean, chromie scribbles

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

10 months

the true final test of an algo running it and getting diverse outputs that you're proud of with zero curation feeling 99% there :) #generativeart

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

Don't forget to refresh metadata - looks like all renders are done

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

39 generative trees pretty cute ones too from a quick sensitivity test on a few variables

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

9 months

testnets rolling in - starting to feel real! still haven't picked a date but will confirm soon and send out via newsletter in my bio despite what the text says in this one i see two cities forever at odds and forever competing.

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

2 months

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

most of my generative art is just 'cheating' with layers.

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

a tiny generative forest made in p5js so much amazing work on #fxhash uses trees that it's become increasingly difficult to do something unique going for a woodcut style here

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

nothing handdrawn, nothing AI; just thousands of dots placed on a canvas in p5js left = one of the first outputs of this algo from September of last year right = random output from this week fun to look at what's stayed the same and what's changed - what do you think?

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

i am not an artist and i am not making art...yet. this is the part of the movie that's a training montage. it is still very fun though.

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

3 months

grid of tiny, generative landscapes

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

9 months

"What's more likely to make me happy, a hope or a question?" ahhh the beauty of generative text - never would've written this myself and yet i can't stop thinking about what the answer is

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

stumbling upon something strange in the forest

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

9 months

i've been "done" with this collection for a month now and still can't stop finding new things to add this is why i think it's so important to have a deadline that is real, but move-able big s/o to @CyphrETH for agreeing / supporting this approach

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

9 months

i think the best gift you can give a parent is to compliment them in front of their kids i have such fond memories of playing [sport] with my dad and hearing his friends tell me about how talented he was deeply shaped my world view and respect for him

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

"a fairy tale is a lesson wrapped in a story" this project still needs so so much work, but i remain in love with many of the outputs

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

11 months

"i've devoted my life to studying ~highly dense interesting objects~" 5 years ago an astronomy professor kicked off a lecture to me and 2 friends sitting in a near empty room with this beautiful line. it's a beautiful description for generative art.

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

10 months

finally! 4 months ago i felt like i nailed the 'walled city' output. but then months of tweaking somehow ruined that type until today when i finally got it back and better than before. i really like the palisade feel of this one.

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

thoughts on the padding, sun, and shadows?

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

3 months

same system

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

first test plots of AFD are coming out much better than i expected #generativeart

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

9 months

just fixed another tiny typo and i think i'm officially done. below are my two favorites of the day. can't decide which is best - monochrome triple city with a fading story or candy color pyramid with a nice little forest?

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

i really want to get a diptych or triptych working for this collection, but it's been difficult to get consistency. this is the closest i've gotten. all in #p5js .

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

9 months

such a strange output bunch of factors came together at the same time in a way i haven't seen before (aggressive texture, minimal hatching, low rainbow wall, pyramid + giant towers, etc.) one of my all time favorites to-date

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

2 years

Minting in Feb 2022… Stitched Fields An exploration of flow fields, shapes, and perlin noise to generate outputs that feel tactile, physical…almost hand stitched. Drop ENS or wallet address for free mint (depending on volume). Closing thread by EOW. #NFTs #NFT #genuary2022

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

aesthetic redaction #generativeart

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

A quick break from 'A Fundamental Dispute'. In the background I've continued to work on my generative fairy tale project. Today I made progress on something really fun - my own 'drop cap' alphabet (made entirely in p5js). Here's the letter 'A'. #generativeart

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

2 years

genuary day 1; draw 10,000 of something 10,001 lines. i don't love it, but it's a start! excited to do 30 of these. #genuary #genuary2022

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

10 months

in a few weeks! newsletter in bio if you don't want to miss the details :)

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

2 years

let there be water #generativeart #p5js

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

11 months

kind of love this now

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

2 months

i like this one

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

7 months

my computer can't stop doodling

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

2 years

gn. generative fairy tale castles (accompanied by a tiny generative ad-lib). nothing hand-drawn (or written). #creativecoding #p5js

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

2 years

would love your thoughts... are these styles too different to co-exist or are they good variability for a 500-1000 piece gen art collection. all are still very WIP (which makes it harder to judge) but all use the same #p5js based code ignore the backgrounds plz :)

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

A Fundamental Dispute #139 an attempt at visualizing a windy day i love the accidental swoop of wind into the trees on the bottom right

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

1 year

i really love playing with this algo usually i love padding but this one feels great full bleed

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

2 months

I thought using Perlin Noise was cheating so I programmed my own noise. Then I thought using noise was cheating so I started capturing data from nature and using that as a seed. I then thought that using p5js was cheating so I started using vanilla JS. I then...

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

2 years

gn. i can't stop experimenting with new traits on these generative castles. today's additions: people + a floating cliff would love your thoughts and feedback.

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

9 months

another bug that may need to become on purpose right is a regular 'diptych' output. left is what happens when the size isn't constrained. kind of works?

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Adam genlight

@generativelight

10 months

What would a truly digitally native book look like? One where time, space, and story are fully dynamic... Had a huge breakthrough and in the final innings on this one. Newsletter link in bio for release details soon 👀