"I am not a type designer. This is the story of the creation of a new font, Avería: the average of all the fonts on my computer. The field of typography has long fascinated me, and I love playing with creative programming ideas, so it was perhaps inevitable that the idea came to me one day of “generative typography”. A Google on the subject brought up little, and I put the idea to the back of my mind until it occurred to me that perhaps the process of averaging, or interpolating, existing fonts might bring up interesting results. Luckily at this point I didn't do any more web searching – instead I grabbed my laptop and came up with an initial idea for finding what the average of all my fonts might look like – by overlaying each letter at low opacity. The results can be seen in the below image."

"We investigate the ray-length distributions for two different rectangular versions of Gilbert's tessellation. In the full rectangular version, lines extend either horizontally (with east- and west-growing rays) or vertically (north- and south-growing rays) from seed points which form a Poisson point process, each ray stopping when another ray is met. In the half rectangular version, east and south growing rays do not interact with west and north rays. For the half rectangular tessellation we compute analytically, via recursion, a series expansion for the ray-length distribution, whilst for the full rectangular version we develop an accurate simulation technique, based in part on the stopping-set theory of Zuyev, to accomplish the same. We demonstrate the remarkable fact that plots of the two distributions appear to be identical when the intensity of seeds in the half model is twice that in the full model. Our paper explores this coincidence mindful of the fact that, for one model, our results are from a simulation (with inherent sampling error).…"

beautiful 3-d art generated by algorithms and driven by Processing apps. Jewelry, lamps, trivets and more. Mass. based duo with MIT and Harvard backgrounds. Gorgeous

Keith Peters, experimenting with porting ActionScript generative art to JavaScript and the HTML5 canvas. This demo page has embedded code for learning.

One of he grand masters of generative art, Hodgin formed the Barbarian Group and did exceptional things in Flash. Now he does even more exceptional things (including mesmerizing video) in Processing and other high powered rendering technologies.

"The result is a series of columns that exhibit both highly specific local conditions as well as an overall coherency and continuity. The ornament is in a continuous flow, yet it consists of very distinct local formations. The complexity of column contrasts with the simplicity of its generative process."

“Nobody’s original,” Cope says. “We are what we eat, and in music, we are what we hear. What we do is look through history and listen to music. Everybody copies from everybody. The skill is in how large a fragment you choose to copy and how elegantly you can put them together.”