I really enjoyed reading about your creative iterative process. I’ve only experimented a tiny bit with genreative art, but I do enjoy it. One question I had while reading it was about how you document your discoveries. I have a theory that I’ll share, but I’d be interested to hear you actual process. My thought on how to document the interations involved the git commit id. Every time you alter the formula, you commit it to the repo, which would generate a new commit number. The art work generated by that commit would somehow incorporate that commit ID. Is that how you’re doing it?
Thank you John for taking the time to start this discussion, I really appreciate it :). In fact, you are very close. I use git a lot and all of my ideas are actually git branches. For example, my starting sketch is on the master branch. Then,as I forage for ideas I will create a new branch if I find an output to be interesting, along the line of wip/[small_description]. Then if I find a theme or something really interesting I will name it artwork/[title_or_description]. So it is one project but all ideas and fully fledged project are branches stemming from the master branch. I don't commit at every changes but more when I believe I have achieved a milestone in the project which is often around the 1 hour mark. For the subject of the generative seed, I use mostly FX(hash) seed generation since this is going to be a long-form project that will generate an artwork using the seed from the platform during the transaction process. That being said, it's a good idea to used the commit ID to generate output and it's a path worth to explore for sure! Also, would it interest you if I make an deep dive article about how I document my explorations? I think it would make a great follow up to this post. Thanks again for your support John and have a great day :)
I like the branching strategy you describe since you can name them, and rename them if you the result is better described by another word.
Yes, I'd enjoy hearing more about your workflow. You've given a hint here, but I'd still enjoy hearing more.
Regarding FX(hash), I'm not really familiar with it. I've played around with p5 and just saw on your blog that you had an article about it. That's on my reading list now!
I really enjoyed reading about your creative iterative process. I’ve only experimented a tiny bit with genreative art, but I do enjoy it. One question I had while reading it was about how you document your discoveries. I have a theory that I’ll share, but I’d be interested to hear you actual process. My thought on how to document the interations involved the git commit id. Every time you alter the formula, you commit it to the repo, which would generate a new commit number. The art work generated by that commit would somehow incorporate that commit ID. Is that how you’re doing it?
Thank you John for taking the time to start this discussion, I really appreciate it :). In fact, you are very close. I use git a lot and all of my ideas are actually git branches. For example, my starting sketch is on the master branch. Then,as I forage for ideas I will create a new branch if I find an output to be interesting, along the line of wip/[small_description]. Then if I find a theme or something really interesting I will name it artwork/[title_or_description]. So it is one project but all ideas and fully fledged project are branches stemming from the master branch. I don't commit at every changes but more when I believe I have achieved a milestone in the project which is often around the 1 hour mark. For the subject of the generative seed, I use mostly FX(hash) seed generation since this is going to be a long-form project that will generate an artwork using the seed from the platform during the transaction process. That being said, it's a good idea to used the commit ID to generate output and it's a path worth to explore for sure! Also, would it interest you if I make an deep dive article about how I document my explorations? I think it would make a great follow up to this post. Thanks again for your support John and have a great day :)
I like the branching strategy you describe since you can name them, and rename them if you the result is better described by another word.
Yes, I'd enjoy hearing more about your workflow. You've given a hint here, but I'd still enjoy hearing more.
Regarding FX(hash), I'm not really familiar with it. I've played around with p5 and just saw on your blog that you had an article about it. That's on my reading list now!