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Learning about art using JavaScript (vart.institute)
120 points by of on Jan 29, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments



Jenn Schiffer also has an absolutely hilarious blog, CSS Perverts: https://medium.com/cool-code-pal


It's not only hilarious, but also a great example of trolling and audience engagement as performance art.

Reading all those earnest comments correcting her Javascript "errors" always makes me cringe at the corrections, feel superior to the people who don't get the joke, and feel guilty at the feeling of superiority.

Provoking laughter and these three emotions in one go is quite an achievement.


I learned a lot about front-end web dev. by making Mondrian art using HTML, CSS and/or JS.

I consider it worked very well.


Likewise, during first year of university, a friend and I had a blast doing a combined art + software project to generate mondrians. We wrote a bunch of processing.js scripts to emulate his various "modes" and tried to make a web application that gradually "honed-in" on a viewer's tastes across Mondrian parameter-space (using some admittedly naive stats):

http://mondrian.nfshost.com

:D


my favorite - Kandinsky styled maps .. ( not javascript )

"Mapbox Studio, More Kandinsky than Matisse"

http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2014/09/mapbox-studio-mo...

map: https://api.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/gmapsmania.6e688409/page.htm...


My favorite map tileset is Stamen's watercolor map: http://maps.stamen.com/watercolor/#12/37.7706/-122.3782


This is cool. Most impressive thing for me is how wildly different the three works (& thus approaches/challenges posed) are. Curious how Cassatt will be tackled.




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