Oct 5, 2008 1:07 AM

Emergent Generative Art tools, then and now

(((Circa 1989: work of William Latham as Visiting Fellow at the IBM UK Scientific Centre.)))

(((Circa 2008: Tool demo for "Septa" open-source code in Processing.)))

More Septa (free-running) from davebollinger on Vimeo.

(((Bonus boxy weirdness for those tired of relating to data through the glass.)))

http://johnpowers.us/voluntaries/voluntaries_23a.html

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