[eu-gene] Flash, Max/MSP/Jiter, C++? + generative art

[Jelle Herold]

Quoting Alice Eldridge (alice at ecila.org):
> a good starting point might be Flake' s Computational beauty of  
> nature. The book covers many self-organising/ complex/adaptive  
> natural systems, provides a bit of background and examples. There are  
> code examples and short demos too. have a look at http:// 
> mitpress.mit.edu/books/FLAOH/cbnhtml/home.html

Wow, thanks, this seems like an interesting read.

> Max is a good way of mapping the outputs, but its tricky to write
> algorithms in MAX itself. If you are a C programmer, it is fairly
> straightforward (after a bit of head scratching) to write externals
> for MAX, or its worth looking at the java tools available. Jitter is
> an obvious advantage if you are wanting to do graphics too, however
> it might be worth looking at processing too (http://
> www.processing.org/) ??

Someone already suggested Python and I'd like to second that. I've used
C++, Java and Python to generate audio and video, and in all cases I
found Python to give the best results: simpler and smaller programs,
faster development (especially the interpreter is usefull to prototype
stuff), quick turnaround/tuning and more stability.

For Max or PD, have a look at py/pyext externals http://grrrr.org/ext/py/
Highly recommended

Hope this helps,
Jelle