About the Author

 

Matt Pearson is a creative coder and sometime writer. A perpetual freelancer, he has donned his coding gloves for clients such as London’s National Portrait Gallery, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Perth Arts Festival, the BBC, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Vancouver Museum of Anthropology, Paramount Pictures, and the UK government. He lives in Brighton UK, where he shares a house with a number of small blonde children, a collection of MacBooks, and probably the most beautiful woman Wolverhampton ever produced. You can find more of his incessant babbling at http://zenbullets.com.

Author Online forum

You can also contact Matt through the Author Online forum run by Manning Publications at www.manning.com/GenerativeArt. Manning’s commitment to our readers is to provide a venue where a meaningful dialogue between individual readers and between readers and the author can take place. It isn’t a commitment to any specific amount of participation on the part of the author, whose contributions to the book’s forum remain voluntary (and unpaid). The Author Online forum and the archives of previous discussions will be accessible from the publisher’s website as long as the book is in print.

Introduction: The Organic vs. The Mechanical

“From the standpoint of Taoist philosophy natural forms are not made but grown, and there is a radical difference between the organic and the mechanical.

Generative art is easy

Order and chaos

Programming as poetry

The chaos artist

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