Creative Coding Sketchbook
Please excuse the AI-generated slop! This case study is a WIP and I'm in the process of adding several creative coding projects here with demo links.
This sketchbook is where I let curiosity drive. Some pieces became finished systems; others remained fragments of ideas — visual whispers I might return to one day. Each one taught me something about how motion, randomness, and structure shape emotion in design.
1. Digital Pottery Shards
Link to GitHub: i-love-shapes
Perhaps it's a result of the children's TV programming I was exposed to in the early 2000s that I have always found geometric shapes comforting and pleasant to look at. In 2018, I discovered Processing where I learned that by plotting points around a circle, I could draw stars, polygons, and even entire patterns.
In one experiment, I plotted circles on a grid inside of a larger circle. By manipulating a handful of values, I could create an infinite number of unique objects.
2. Mountains
Link to GitHub: generative-landscapes
When my husband and I started dating, he took me on long drives to the North Georgia mountains where he grew up. Equipped with a camera, I asked him to slow down and stop the car in areas that he had passed a thousand times before to take photos of the ridgelines at different times of the day.
One of the first creative-coding lessons is 1-D Perlin Noise, which happens to look a lot like a mountain silhouette. These sketches use that pattern and a bit of color randomness to recreate the feeling of those drives through the Appalachian Mountains.
3. Chickens
Link to GitHub: chicken-toy
On one trip to North Georgia, I found a free copy of the magazine Appalachian Southern Living.
