After some indirect encouragement from some folks on my Mastodon instance, I’ve decided to try my hand at Genuary! Each day of the month has a theme, which I’ve notated next to each header.
Compared to many, my love affair with code is rather young, so don’t expect to be blown away by any of these outputs. But rest assured knowing I had lots of fun creating them (and that I won’t be finishing every one)!
The prompt for Genuary30 is ‘Minimalism’, and I decided to head back to Supercollider. I forked a project I found online, and had a blast playing around with the code. Here’s one of the better outputs from this evening.
This one was a ton of fun. Probably because my creative coding skills are that of a kid. But I will say this; if my daughter was coding right now, she’d make something just like this. If you’re not familiar with the sea doggo video, now you can be.
See the Pen Genuary 26: My Kid Could Have Made That by John (@yelof) on CodePen.
What do ya know, I almost completed a Genuary prompt on its assigned day!
This is an edit of a moiré pattern I found. I played around with gradient, line width, and animation spin times to render this morphing lattice of digital terraces.
See the Pen CSS Moiré Patterns by John (@yelof) on CodePen.
Perpetually late with these Genuary prompts. What, me worry?
During lunch on Genuary 16 I opened up the marvelous Glitch Lab app and played with some reflections captured nicely by Yuma Hori.
I first added a simple RGB refraction with a few added tweaks. I then added a ghosting effect, followed by some additional reflective effects, ending with a 3d topology of the final image.
For this challenge, I played around with the animation of rectangles, using shades from two of my favorite colors.
See the Pen suprematism by John (@yelof) on CodePen.
For this challenge, I went back to Supercollider, and tweaked a generative work using minor tones.
This was the first time I’ve had more than one 10+ minute Supercollider session in a week. This has allowed me to actually remember a thing or two, which has lead to more progression and fun!
It’ll go on forever, so a minute-ish sampling seemed appropriate. Code can be found here.
For this challenge, I played with the color pallet from Zony Mash’s Brand Spankin’ New album, and some variations with anime.js.
It might not be the best way to learn code, but I do enjoy forking people’s pens and playing with variations of them.
See the Pen Color Changin’ Zony Mash by John (@yelof) on CodePen.
I saw from a fellow Mastodon’er that Genuary projects don’t necessarily need to be created manually with code, but can also include manually controlled programs. While I aim to keep it 100% code, for now here’s some glitch art I created using the wonderful Glitch Lab app. This was created from an image of the inside of an underground mushroom dungeon themed escape room.
Superollider is a program and programming language (SC) for creating real-time audio synthesis. This is my quick (ok, more like 20 minutes) fork of a file I found on an online Supercollider community.
Here’s me playing with delay on top of some sawtooth waveforms. Warning: sound is cold, alien, and by most accounts, non-musical! Code can be found here.
I started late, so will be back to do this one!