More about Simulation & Morphosynthesis

Generative Artists – 1st Generation

• Charles Csuri (*1922) [i]
• Herbert W. Franke (*1927)
• Jean-Pierre Hébert (*1939)
• Manfred Mohr (*1938)
• Vera Molnar (*1924)
• Frieder Nake (*1938)
• Georg Nees (*1926)
• A. Michael Noll (*1939)
• Lillian Schwartz (*1927)
• Roman Verostko (*1929)
• Edward Zajec (*1938)

Generative Artists – 2nd Generation

• Karl Sims
• William Latham
• Mark Wilson (*1943)

Generative Artists – 3rd Generation

• Robert Hodgin / Flight404 [Flickr][Vimeo][Site]
• Leander Herzog [Flickr][Vimeo]
• Marius Watz [Flickr][Vimeo][Site]
• Karsten Schmidt / Toxi [Flickr][Vimeo][Site]
• Lia Something [Flickr][Vimeo][Site]
• Tina Frank [Vimeo][Site]
• Aaron Koblin [Vimeo][Site]
• Erik Natzke [Flickr][Vimeo]
• Memo Akten [Vimeo][Site]
• Jared Tarbell [Flickr][Site]
• Mario Klingemann / Quasimondo [Flickr][Site]

Historic & Contemporary Resources

• Ruth Leavitt’s 1975 book Artist and Computer, now online, is an excellent snapshot of computer/algorithmic/generartive arts from ~1965-1975.
• The Digital Art Museum [DAM] in Berlin also has an excellent overview of historic works.
• The GeneratorX blog, maintained by Marius Watz, is a comprehensive gateway to contemporary practice in this area.
• Casey Reas has created a marvellous exploration of Software Structures at Whitney Artport.
• A fantastic web site of Generative Art Links by Mikael Hvidtfeldt Christensen.

• Toxi: Wheels
• Quasimondo: Ornamism
• Mathworld Curves, Famous Curves
  (see this Processing applet)

Shape Grammars / Substitution Rules

• Stiny & Gips

Procedural Modelling

• Pascal Mueller‘s Procedural Modeling of Cities (PDF)

Artificial Life, Synthetic Characters

• A-Volve (Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau) [1][2]
• Nokia Friends (Toxi + Universal Everything)
• Processing Monsters (Lukas Vojir et al.)
• Singlecell.org and Doublecell.org (Various)
• Creatures (Lee Byron, CMU’08)
• A Confidence of Vertices (Brandon Morse)
• Sniff interactive dog (Karolina Sobecka & Jim George)
• Evolved Virtual Creatures (1994, Karl Sims)
• Steering Behaviors (Craig Reynolds)
• Birds! (Robert Hodgin / Flight404)

Something to consider: a slime mold can solve a maze!
A Dictyostelium Slime Mold Simulation (applet)