Questions tagged [generative-art]
The visual art or other aesthetic results generated by Mathematica.
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Code golf chromostereopsis illusion
I am trying to maximally shorten the code (code golf) for chromostereopsis illusion by Akiyoshi Kitaoka:
https://twitter.com/AkiyoshiKitaoka/status/1700061353346798019
The point is to make it: (1) ...
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How to produce wavy lines
New to Mathematica, I'd like to produce some 'thick wavy lines' as simple graphical forms (not sure how else to describe them), like the waved shape of this dagger blade (but not the handle):
I've ...
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How to create a random belt polygon or belt polyhedron?
A zonogon is a convex polygon that is made up of parallel sides. Generating a random zonogon in Mathematica can be found here. A natural generalization of zonogons is called belt polygons. A belt ...
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How to speed up this small 2D graphics code?
The following code is very slow, with Mathematica 13.2 on a Mac Silicon M2 Pro:
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Code to generate mandala with message
A long time ago they gave me many answers to these questions,
Code that generates a mandala
is it possible to enter text in the center
something like "abcde" , without the quotes and maybe ...
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Coloring cells created by a graph [duplicate]
A few days ago, an article by N. J. A. Sloane appeared on arxiv.org: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.03149.pdf, about the history of the On-line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. One of the problems ...
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Draw impossible figure with MMA, how can it be done?
How can I draw this figure using Mathematica? I have tried to trace the points on it but the white lines or contours that they have distort the resulting figure.
I have searched for some similar code ...
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How to define the density of random 3D points and plot it?
The following code draws a random distribution of particles in 3D. The Manipulate box allows to change a few parameters (number of particles, size of clusters, ...). I would like to define the local ...
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Is there "absolute" point size for Graphics3D?
I would like to get points size that vary when the viewer is zooming in/out through the 3D graphic. The point size I want should be defined as "absolute", relative to the coordinates used ...
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How to add random point size to this distribution of 3d points?
The code below creates a random distribution of points in 3D. Currently, the points have a random size, and the size is the same for all points. I need the points to get individually a random size, ...
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How to get fuzzy points in a 3D view?
I would like to produce fuzzy random points (sprites like) in a 3D view. Applying a Blur command doesn't do the trick since the view is then frozen and we couldn't rotate the view anymore, and I don'...
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How to introduce random correlations in a 3D uniform distribution of points?
I would like to build a simple visualization of the distribution of galaxies on a large scale model of the universe. Currently, my galaxies are represented as uniform random black dots in a 3D cube, ...
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How to add doodles and sketches in a mandala
i discovered mathematica yesterday; and i've been playing with RandomMandala since.
i also saw this question; and i really liked the second answer; but i like the ...
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How to create a mosaic from characters or small images?
I want to create a piece of art similar to the following two images of Grace Hopper and Bill Gates:
I know how to create a word cloud and want to extend this knowledge to make something similar to ...
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How to create a Lichtenberg Figure?
I want to create a simulated Lichtenberg figure in a manner similar to this image:
What is a good method to generate Lichtenberg figures?
There is a very helpful post on Wolfram Community about ...
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Animated ContourPlot Color Rescaling
My goal is to create a smooth animation of a changing ContourPlot. Unfortunately, the colors specified in ContourShading seem to bounce around during the animation. Below is an example of what I'm ...
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How could this image be reproduced with MMA?
It is assumed that this image was obtained by computer-graphics, any idea to reproduce it, as I show it, thank you very much in advance.
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Art on Mathematica: How can I export 4K resolution png images?
This question is solely based upon $[1]$ and therefore, the reading of $[1]$ could be interesting.
How can I export the image created, by the code in the following, with high definition, beautiful, 4K ...
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Code for a color bucket fill (seed fill) of a bounded irregular area?
In images like the one shown here, I would like to be able to pick an x,y coordinate and fill the bounded interior with a specified color. That functionality is well known in PhotoShop and GIMP, but ...
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Art on mathematica with filled circles and straight paths: how can I reproduce minimalist suns?
I would like to know: how can I construct minimalist images like this one?
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Any ideas for producing doodles?
I have been having fun with:
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PlotStyle like ocean waves?
I wonder how one can manipulate options like PlotStyle, Lighting, and Specularity to make ...
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How can I handle graphics or artworks with millions of points?
As a hobby, I am trying to use Mathematica and Wolfram Language as a tool for making generative artworks. Generative art techniques may require drawing millions of points, lines, or curves. For ...
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How to create a smooth black and white texture without jaggies?
The following code creates a random black and white texture with ugly jaggies (pixelized "stairs") all around the shapes, because of the Binarize command. ...
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Looking for a notebook with the "glowing gasket" [closed]
I look for an implementation of the "glowing gasket" as described in the book "Indra's Pearls" in Mathematica.
Here is a typical image:
I did a look at Wolfram Demonstrations and ...
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Randomly oscillating surface is not working well
I'm trying to built some random moving surface from a plane perturbed with random oscillators, and my current code isn't doing what I need yet, as seen from the ...
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How to insert variable height in this random bumps function?
I'm trying to insert a "time" variable that control the height of the random smooth bumps, but I'm yet unable to do it right, as shown with the code below:
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How to define a smooth function of random bumps in a plane?
I would like to define a simple function that gives random smooth bumps in a plane, a bit like the clumsy picture below, but it should be continuous:
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How to draw borders around tiles of the same color?
I'm having difficulties with a project to show random tiles with a few random colors. Here's the code that I need to modify:
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How to draw random colorfull domains in a plane?
I'm trying to produce some graphics like the one shown below, with a few adjustable parameters to change the number and size of cells. The cells positions, sizes and colors should all be random (size ...
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Realistic and stylistic Image and Video corruption effects
I'd like to produce a video that looks 'corrupted' in some way, ideally like the sorts of MPEG corruptions you see occasionally. See this for examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-bz21deEeY
At ...
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What is Westworld's Rehoboam Thinking? How to generate its graphical interface?
Westworld season 3 is another science fiction show containing a circular motif.The supercomputer Rehoboam predicts and controls human behaviour, and is shown physically as a large sphere. The ...
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How to generate this simulation of rotating circles in 3D?
I saw this beautiful, hypnotic set of concentric circles rotating in 3D around the origin.
I thought I could produce the same on Mathematica, but terribly failed. So far this is what I tried:
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How to generate a Coronavirus 3D geometric model?
How to generate a Coronavirus 3D geometric model like this one:
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/1024px3D_medical_animation_coronavirus_structure-1024x576.jpg
Or this one:
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Making cool animations of an accretion disk/planetary disk
I am trying to make an animation of an accretion disk or a planetary disk.
For example, a cool disk showing below (created by NAHKS TR'EHNL):
or in this link
Here is what I have tried so far:
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Text flow into user-defined outline
I'd like to flow text into a region defined by a curve, such as:
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Rotating squares animation
Reference link: https://www.geogebra.org/m/RHYH3UQ8 , https://www.geogebra.org/m/xkzsqcyx , https://www.netpad.net.cn/svg.html#posts/55789
I want to generate an rotating squares animation like this, ...
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Create a Miura origami pattern?
I want to solve the below code to create an origami pattern
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Generate and graph the Recamán Sequence
I was surprised to see that we don't have any posts that mention the Recamán Sequence, so I figured I should post it as a challenge. By definition, $a_0=0$ and $a_n=a_{n-1}-n$ if the r.h.s. is ...
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Geometric inspiration behind Hal(irutan)'s Wolf(ram Language Logo)
Our good friend hal made a logo for WL as part of a Community Ad:
The logo itself is much nicer than the bland Wolfram wolf, of course, but one has to wonder: what's the geometrical inspiration ...
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How to Make a Beautiful Stacked 3D Plot
I am looking to make a plot where:
Plot is composed of a group of 2D plots, stacked in 3D.
The height of the line is indicated by the color.
The mean of the wave of each plot is indicated by a dashed ...
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Can Mathematica be used to create an Artistic 3D extrusion from a 2D image and wrap a line pattern around it?
So here's somewhat of the general goal first: Here's an example of image-based line patterns
Here is an example of an artists work in creating imagery using only lines
bent as though distorted by an ...
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Reproducing the XKCD "Consensus New Year" plot
This xkcd strip for December 31, 2018 had the following plot:
How may I use CountryData with DateListPlot (or other related ...
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How to make a spiroglyphic?
Some (older) members of this group might remember playing vinyl LP records. Recently, at the Abbey Road studio there was a spiroglyphics coloring book for sale. It looks like a nice programming ...
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Unknown (Graphics) Pleasure
I want to make a program that produces images like this one
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Converting Image to full-length lines
I want to write a program in Mathematica that takes an image and converts it into a drawing made completely of straight full-length lines.
The program should check all the lines of the image, then ...
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How to achieve this fractal image transformation?
The app MirrorLab on Android has a very interesting Julia Effect, and I'd like to recreate this effect in Mathematica. Here are some examples of input images and their outputs:
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How to visualize the Cremona method for cardioid generation
I saw this on Twitter and found the cardioid drawing quite satisfying. I don't know much mathematical background, and was wondering if I can draw this using Mathematica.
And this one apparently take $...
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Plotting the Layers of Earth
I want to generate a picture like below with Mathematica. I mean exactly the same thing, except maybe the map depicted on the outer layer. But I don't know where to start from! I would appreciate it ...
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Improve inverted 3D Truchet tiling? [closed]
Here is a 3D inverted Truchet tiling, p is "radius of the tubes", n is "volume".
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