What is Generative Art, and What Programs Can Use To Generate It

Generative art is a form of art that is generated by a computer program.

Regia Marinho
4 min readNov 24, 2022
Generative art from a famous painting of Édouard Manet. by the author.

Generative art is a digital art form that uses randomness and procedural generation to make art.

It is a type of art that uses algorithms to generate an image or video.

The artist has some influence over the image’s content, but they don’t control it completely.

Instead, they set up the rules for how their work will be created, and then let the algorithm do its thing.

Generative art is sometimes called “algorithmic art” or “computer-generated art.”

One common example of generative art is fractal art.

Fractals are mathematical formulas that recursively apply a simple rule repeatedly over time to create patterns that are infinitely complex.

Fractal images can be generated by drawing them pixel-by-pixel with software like Photoshop.

There are programs designed specifically for generating fractals like Apophysis.

Generative art is digital art created by algorithms.

It’s different from traditional art. It can be digitally generate from a text, a photo, a drawing, a…

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