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    ANA, a computer painting program ☶ art lisp thebluereview.org
    mjn avatar via mjn 2 years ago | cached | 1 comment

First part of a three-part series, of which two have been published so far. The second part gets into more technical details (hence the Lisp tag).

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    mjn avatar mjn 2 years ago | link

    I especially found this part of his motivation interesting, that he’s interested in generative art not mainly for the output (automatically generating paintings), but because it helps him systematize and externalize his own approach to painting and color,

    Aside from producing images that can be printed for display, a main part of the ANA project has involved an ongoing effort to translate what I know about drawing and painting manually and my own personal aesthetics for color, form, subject matter and other things, such that they can be performed or demonstrated by the computer programming code. The idea here is to build a program that approximates what I do when I draw and paint by hand, with physical brushes and paint. My goal in this effort is not to produce an artificially-intelligent program, but to learn more about my own ways of knowing and understanding painting and its components.