Generative Art #
If you’re interested in generative music and sounds as well, you may want to check out The OpGuides page on Live coding Music Software .
World Building Tools







Constructed Langugages, Generative Text
Huge Playlist on Constructed Languages ( Conlang Critic on YouTube)
Some more cool examples, but lacking code:
Pentagonal Glyphs (Reddit) Generative Glyphs (Reddit)
If you just want cursive hand writing: https://github.com/GirkovArpa/calligrapher-ai should do the trick.
Generative Textures and Geometry


Noisedeck is a generative art synth. Still in early development. Some features require a license.
Five months ago, we had an idea for a simple app to make generative art accessible to everyone. It's rapidly matured into a remarkable app, and found its way into the workflow of a small (but growing!) base of talented creators.
— noisedeck (@noisedeck) April 5, 2021
Thank you! We're excited about what's next. ✨ pic.twitter.com/7KpkFNjv99
Thank you!! pic.twitter.com/XhuJw0V3n5
— Miguel Rafael (@migrafael) February 3, 2021
楽しいhttps://t.co/7RAyBn2VOl https://t.co/F1CcsaHqBd pic.twitter.com/e3tfTLsN3x
— Jun Kanomata (@jun_kanomata) February 3, 2021
Making ‘Noise Planets’ on Avinayak’s Blog
Themer (Live Demo) (Github), meant for making themes for Linux environments, but makes good textures in general
Pixel Sorting
Fractal Art

Generative Eyes
Livecoding Visuals
Toplap.org - a site all about live coding
The Book of Shaders - “A gentle step-by-step guide through the abstract and complex universe of Fragment Shaders.”





Video courtesy of Neurotypique

Creative Coding (Non Live)
HackadayU Creative Code with Casey Hunt (YouTube)


A Rust library for describing 3D meshes with simple composable rules.
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Data Visulization


Scripting/Generative tools IN other tools

Super resolution, frame interpolation, and other effects


For Plotters
See the 3D Printing & CNC page from the Engineering section of OpGuides for more resources
vpype - aims to be the one-stop-shop, Swiss Army knife for producing plotter-ready vector graphics. Here are, for illustration, a few examples of what it can do:
Sequence Diagrams, Flow Charts, etc. (Mostly for the nerds)


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If you’re looking at this list, there’s a good chance you’re either writing up technical documentation or working on an academic paper, and so using LaTeX. First, I feel your pain. Second, This DSPTricksManual from Paolo Prandoni may help with some graphing, as may all of the Tikz Examples on texample.net. There’s decent Circuit and Block Diagram examples, though I do still think loading in a picture from an external tool is probably in your best interest due to the PITA that is doing this in plain LaTeX.
Other Resources
Sound Design #
Resources to learn Creative Coding #
Noise in Creative Coding (Varun Vachhar)
As an aside, Simplex Noise is technically patented until Jan 8, 2022 (which is really fucking stupid)
Making Perlin Planets (vinaybhaip.com)
Creative Coding libraries #
Some inspiration #
Python + Quantum Research = Art + Saving 1000s hours of CPU time (Reddit)
Generative Constellations (Reddit)
Seriously, the three above pieces are some of my absolute favorite pieces. I think about them a lot.
Grant Custer’s Feed + Constraint.systems - I particularly like Grant’s Text Walk Scroller and Moire
From Generated.space, I particularly like Marching Squares 2, Perspective Map Trace, Map Trace, Fractal Square 2, Noisify, and Interactive Pixel Sorter - The latter two can really be used for original art directly even.
Echo/printf to write images in 5 LoC with zero libraries or headers (Vidar’s Blog)
10 innovative creative coding examples that are redefining programming (Shaping Design - Editor X)
META: Hacker News Submission on this page, with a bit of discussion