Some art I made.. or at least, evolved
Hi Steemit,
I've never actually posted these anywhere before, but some years back I spent a while playing around with generative graphics, and saved a bunch of cool things I found. This makes me less an artist than an explorer - the computer did all the work, I just searched through the space of available images to find stuff I liked.
Everything here was created with Evolvotron
Some of these have themes, or at least follow a pattern. I called these wires, because they looked sort of like fabric made of electrical wire to me:
These are the voyagers, because they remind me of small spacecraft flying alone in the distant reaches of space
Desert scenes of increasing abstraction:
And some just really weird cool stuff:
I think there's a few in the album I didn't embed here, so if you want to see the whole thing you can find it here
Thanks for looking!
Edit 2: Updated URLs based on advice from user djleo - let's see if this works any better
Just out of interest, let's see if you can put images in comments as well as posts:
Woah! There you go, it works! I love this place :D
Wow this one I opened made me think it was really moving!
Shame the images are broken now :(
Will check out this Evolvotron - open source too! Thanks!
I'm not really sure what's going on with the images TBH. Sometimes they seem to display and sometimes they don't, and it doesn't seem to matter which browser I'm using. They're hosted on imgur, so I can't tell if it's a steemit problem or an imgur one, but even if they aren't showing up here you should be able to see the full album here: http://imgur.com/a/iaOQX
Anyways, thanks for commenting! I was a bit disappointed when this seemed to go by ignored, so it's really nice to have some comments rolling in now :)
Try removing the 'i.' before the imgur domain from your image links - that's how I got the green one to open.
Edited the post to update the URL's, maybe that'll work better. The images all seem to be working right now, so that's a good sign. Thanks for the advice!
Yes, I posted a Blender tutorial which didn't get as many votes as I was expecting.
I am happy that some people got something out of it, though. I guess the platform is young and not every investor is actively seeking out original content. I hope over time and with more investors, the level of participation will increase - this place will sure get a lot more exciting!
There seems to be something funky going on with links right now. If I hover over the link in your post my cursor changes to the finger pointer, so it recognizes it's a link, but clicking does nothing, it shows no URL in the status bar of my browser, and if I right-click I don't get any of the options like copy URL, etc.
Not sure if it's my browser or steemit, but I tried in both Chrome and Firefox, and I'm getting the same on both.
Couldn't get it to compile on OS X :(
Got errors to do with 'cpu_set_t'. Will try on Ubuntu tomorrow.
Oh, hey, someone actually commented on this! I figured it had largely been ignored.
Last time I used Evolvotron was some years ago, and I don't think it has really been under active development for several years. As I recall, I was able to apt-get it from some universe repository at the time, but TBH I don't really remember how/where any more. If you can get it up and running it's a great program to play around with though, but be warned, it can be addictive. I spent more time than was really reasonable tweaking parameters and trying to find cool new things. Good luck!
There's another addictive art program (not generative) called Alchemy you may also like.
Oh, that looks really cool! Hadn't heard of that one before, will check it out