Creative Coding

Creative Coding Inspiration

There are some amazing things out there on the web, just waiting for you to find them!

  • OpenProcessing [Coding is Beautiful]

    • Discover creative coding projects. Write code on the built-in editor. Teach and learn with a class page.

  • Dwitter [Tiny JavaScript]

    • Dwitter.net is a challenge to see what awesomeness you can create when limited to only 140 characters of javascript and a canvas. Give it a go!

  • Experiments with Google [At the Crossroads of Art & Technology]

    • A showcase of projects, along with helpful tools and resources, to inspire others to create new experiments. New ones added every week. Have fun.

  • Art from Code [By Keith Peters]

    • Dwitter.net is a challenge to see what awesomeness you can create when limited to only 140 characters of javascript and a canvas. Give it a go!

  • Necessary Disorder [By Etienne Jacob]

    • Mind-blowing code experiments presented on a Tumbler blog.

  • Flikr Group: Generative Art [Photos of Generative Art]

    • Generative art photo pool on Flickr.

  • RK [By Raven Kwok]

    • Another super cool Tumbler blog showcasing coded art.

  • TurtleToy [Create Art with Turtle Graphics]

    • Turtletoy allows you to create generative art using a minimalistic javascript Turtle graphics API. You can only create black-and-white line drawings on a square canvas. By offering a very restrictive environment we not only hope to stimulate creativity, we also make sure that the turtles can (at least theoretically) be plotted using a simple plotter.

  • TixyLand [Dot-based Art]

    • An example of codegolf, competitive coding aiming to make a tiny program.

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Why these tools?

The tools linked above are free, esaily available on the web and are ready to use in the classroom.

Where can I find out more?

The worlds of computer graphics, visual arts, creative coding, generative art and other ways of using computers to create art are vast. There is an incredible amount of information available on the web. A great place to start (as with most computing topics) is an awesome list. Here's one for Creative Coding by Terkel Gjervig, designed for beginners.