iansteyn

Interesting idea, but just a tip: add “Show HN:” to the fromt of your title or it will get buried.

404s for all five takes

P.S. i’ve tried my best to follow titling guidelines by using almost the original title, but removing extra clickbaity words. Let me know if I’m off target.

Sonic Pi is missing imo. (Some have mentioned Strudel, it’s a similar live-coding music platform). Admittedly Ruby-based, but it seems some of the other ones on the list are libraries/forms of other langs too.

OP here: ^this is a better post, it goes straight to the actual artist’s website

Yeah fair enough. I don’t think of genAI either when I hear “procedural generation” (or CGI - “Computer Generated Imagery” - for that matter). But the word “generate” has taken on new significance for the broader public now and I’m not sure that non-technical folks know the difference.

This post makes me wonder - does anyone else think there is a need for a term to more strongly differentiate between procedural generation (like this knot-drawing program) and genAI? I feel it really diminishes the impact of the work of programmer-artists nowadays to say they make “computer-generated” art. Or maybe we already have such a term?

I really like how the author walks us through the generation process step-by-step. It makes it seem possible for me to build stuff like this too!!