Media

Print

5 entries related to the media “Print”.

Tool / Software

AxiDraw (Evil Mad Scientist)

A desktop drawing machine that holds a pen and draws vector images such as SVG onto paper. Widely used for plotter art, its site provides product information, control software and documentation — a way to turn code-generated lines into real pen drawings.

  • Plotters & Output Devices
  • Generative Art

Artist

Lactamme (Jean-François Colonna)

A huge archive of mathematical and physical simulation images by a researcher at École polytechnique in France, with more than ten thousand pictures and animations grouped by theme — real numbers, fractals, quantum physics, astronomy and more. The site is old-fashioned and easy to get lost in, but it is still being updated.

  • Fractals
  • Dynamical Systems & Chaos
  • Simulation

Tool / Software Revisited

Processing

A flexible software sketchbook and language for learning to code within the visual arts. Started in 2001 by Casey Reas and Ben Fry and now stewarded by the Processing Foundation, it remains a classic entry point to generative art.

  • Generative Art
  • Algorithms
  • Interactive Technology

Society Revisited

The Bridges Organization

A non-profit devoted to the connections between mathematics and art, music, architecture and culture. It runs the annual Bridges conference, held since 1998 and a central venue for mathematical art exhibitions and papers.

  • Mathematics
  • Geometry
  • Symmetry

Artist

Tyler Hobbs

A generative artist who uses algorithms to create painterly work. Besides the work itself, the site publishes essays explaining techniques such as flow fields.

  • Generative Art
  • Algorithms