Questions tagged [generative-art]
The visual art or other aesthetic results generated by Mathematica.
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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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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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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
What I have tried...
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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 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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How can I draw such faceted triangle patterns?
Is it possible to create such patterns with Mathematica?
See design.SE for details on how to do that with Photoshop and http://matthew.wagerfield.com/flat-surface-shader/ for animated version.
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Generating music notes on the fly, that play over one another
I'm attempting to use Mathematica to generate music on the fly. I know that I can take a list of notes (which have lengths associated with them) and create a sound object, and play that sound object. ...
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Drawing Clifford Attractors in Mathematica
I came upon the "Clifford Attractor" today, which are equations of the form:
$$x_{n+1}=\sin(a\ y_n) + c \cos(x_n)$$
$$y_{n+1}=\sin(b\ x_n) + d \cos(y_n)$$
They create some incredible images by ...
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How to create a faded image using an existing image file
The question is simple:
How can I take an image of a perfect stamp (load an image file) such as
and make it look old, worn, and faded, with missing arbitrary small bits, like the following stamp
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Creating a custom e-seal
Well, the question is obvious: how can I create the following e-seal (with the rotated wrapped text, inserted image etc) with Mathematica?
The central image is the following
So, the following ...
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Implementing a planetary terrain generation algorithm
From this (now deleted) question I found this site where the author discusses a simple technique for random terrain generation on a sphere.
The method discussed is as follows:
start with a ...
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Create a nonlinear mapping that simulates ripples in an image [closed]
Assume an image is viewed through a horizontal layer of water, and we want to use nonlinear mapping to simulate the ripples in such an image.
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How to ImageRestyle high-res images?
I’m running v12 now and ImageRestyle[] crashes for me on an image of size 1600 x 1200 pixels.
All the examples in the documentation use images around 500 x 500 or ...
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Color gradient varying in a path
The code below is to create something like a logo. I want to apply a color gradient over the polygons of the pattern, but they vary along the path. The image that I want to approach is this:
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Change of pattern in certain position
I want to create an image that contains a pattern similar to an inclined rectangle.
The features are as follows:
1. I want to control the angle of inclination, height and thickness:
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How to change an image into Moku hanga style?
I like Moku hanga and like changing images into Moku hanga style. (Using this kind of apps.)
I experimented with transforming images into Moku hanga style using the neural networks procedure that is ...
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Visualizing convolution and deconvolution layers in mathematica
I found this series of visualizations of NN layers working principle fascinating (link):
Can you provide some tips how to build such animation in Mathematica?
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Generating Doyle spiral painting
I recently came across an interesting paining by Nicola Sutcliffe:
This painting is actually related to Doyle spirals.
From author's website:
The central part of the picture shows the Doyle ...
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Filling Space with Pursuit Polygons
I want to make a program which can fill a 2D space with "pursuit polygons".
The following picture will help you understand better what I mean.
You can also look up "pursuit curves" or mice problem or ...
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Where is Abbott? How to make logograms from the film “Arrival”?
The film Arrival showed Wolfram Language code in action analysing alien logograms. A recent
blog describes some details and
mentions
a live-coding video by Christopher Wolfam. See also Stephen Wolfram'...
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Code that generates a mandala
My little brother asked me to print original mandalas for coloring. I would like some idea on how to create them, but without color, so he can color them.
examples
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Generate landscape by cutting a plane in 3d
Browsing this community, I have noticed that it seems that the friend Vicente and I are working on something similar, but I have seen a web page in Spanish that addresses the same algorithm, only used ...
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How to cut a plane at random points?
I hope that someone can help me understand how to perform the following algorithm in Mathematica, I am taking as reference the next page reference page in your section planar version , the problem is ...
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Make Person Curve from a Picture
I recently read this; http://blog.wolfram.com/2013/05/17/making-formulas-for-everything-from-pi-to-the-pink-panther-to-sir-isaac-newton/
In this post, newton curve is made by using the image "...
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How to wrap a crumpled paper over a surface?
My initial question was about the making of a crumpled paper. After reading this article suggested by J.M. and little more browsing (kind of random walk you do on a Saturday) I thought about expanding ...
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Draw image as a continuous-line drawing
There is code to drawing image as a continuous-line
tako=Import["http://imgur.com/vJkdS4x.png"]
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Strategies for creating 3D text
I am interested in using Mathematica to create 3D text for printing. I stumbled upon this answer which works very well in a slightly modified form:
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Drawing picture with straight lines (Petros Vrellis's Art)
I am trying to extend Writing a word with straight lines for any picture/image. I guess the basic idea is to find a set of points in the image region and then draw random lines through them. Let's ...
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How to create and export a procedural planet texture with normal map
I would like to generate some earth-like/mars-like/giant-gas-like planets/moon/asteroid textures with normal map and specular map as 4k PNG files (4096 X 2048 pixels), to be mapped on a sphere with ...
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Visualize an irrational number
I would like to visualize an irrational number like the square root of 2 with Mathematica. I found this visualization of Pi in the internet and wonder how this ...
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Generalized Backpropagation for Neural Networks (e.g. DeepDream)
Is there currently any way to abuse NetTrain to maximize an arbitrary cost/utility -function in some hidden layer and/or even modify the input to increase neuron ...
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Obtaining a 3D animation as a drop in a liquid surface
Someone could get a similar solution like this animation?
I believe the solution is useful for demonstrations in class to other users who teach Math.
Spreading of a Thin Liquid Drop Under the ...
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Generate a certain colorful triangle
I want to get a colorful triangle like this:
I hope to get a triangle with any number of layers. This is my current method. Actually, I'm not very content with these graph theory functions, since ...
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Reproducing the xkcd “Self-Description” comic
Trying to brush up on my programming, I wanted to see if I can reproduce at least the first two panels of the following comic in Mathematica:
I have some code for trying to reproduce the first panel, ...
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How to generate image like QR code with Mathematica
How to generate such form of QR code which displays an image itself but is still scan-able?
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How to create this spikey in Mathematica?
I came across this post while messying around the StackExchange mobile. I think this thing can be easily done by Mathematica as well but I'm not an expert in geometric field. Can anyone give some ...
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How can Mathematica be used to create images like these?
Here are two examples of artistic image interpolation using just black lines:
TRIANGULATION: ANGULAR CELEBRITIES DRAWN WITH A PEN
Interpolation for Triangulation-represented Digital Image
The ...
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Make a fractal-like dot animation
How to make an animation of following fractal-like gif by using Mathematica?
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Left Right Straight Maze
How do I generate a Left, Right and Straight ordering for a maze for something like the following?
Similar to generating a left and right ordering for someone walking in real life.
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Writing a word with straight lines
Here is an interesting way to write a word: (it is from a poster for the International Museum Day 2006; I believe it even won an award at an international design competition)
by Boris Ljubicic.
I ...
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