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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

If its used as a self-teaching aid by an individual who genuinely has interest and wants to learn its literally the best way to learn. Direct, responsive, operates at learners pace. Like an infinity patient master who talks you through all aspects of language syntax, coding patterns - everything

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

killer is as teaching tool. Who care about cheaters who don't want to use it to learn, don't let that diminish the power it has for teaching those who want to learn.

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

10 pieces available, 19 Apr 2200 GMT Minting -> www.blockgen.art/collection/D...

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Generative art sketch. 80% code and math, with a bit of crafted data for a splatter algorithm. Standalone 16KB JavaScript. #creativecoding #genart

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Art release: 13 Apr, 10pm gmt www.blockgen.art #Cardano

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Sure they all can pretty much. I see it like nature. It can appear as an infinite number of scenes and experiences. And we take pictures of the ones we want to remember. Its a bit like that. From the endless possibilities, curate a few that made you feel something. Maybe someone will vibe with it

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Yeah that wouldn't need to change, as the artist you retain the rights to your works. The sale and token gives the new owner some rights too. So they can print it on a canvas or in some cases sell prints. Potentially also the rights to remix into new works

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Its nice to be able to curate specific pieces. Give them a permanent home & ability to be owned like all other art. Because its on-chain the code lives in the permanent part of the blockchain. It can be used by collectors in exhibits and galleries+ provable legal rights. Its worth the effort

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A few intro videos here: youtube.com/@blockgenera... these are a little old but mostly relevant. Also if you log into construct theres a bunch of example projects to have a poke though, you have to 'save as' to edit them And the discord: discord.gg/ryGGjnk7Aw

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Our home page: www.blockgen.art you can see previous released works. Plus minting for when theres a release. Editor: construct.blockgen.art Its a little JS webapp code editor we built, bit like p5js. But designed specifically for 16kb art, it lets you preview the compacted version

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Its a little harder with 16kb gen art. Most art coders out there would rather it be unbounded and with libraries. I get it. But with a tiny limit req, it forces you to the functional fundamentals of an algorithm/mechanism, to a deep understanding of it and to new juicy incites! Which I quite like.

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Probably not, but I'd absolutely love to see you port some of your ideas over and to make something new. I'd be willing to help get you started and resolve any issues that come up. Like I mentioned we're a tiny team of enthusiastic art coders, so we very much welcome someone of your caliber!

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

The dark stirs ⚫️ #genart #Cardano

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

That's cool and strange! I like it. I like js for its ease of use and its ability to take syntax abuse. Similar to LUA you can really get in there and mess about. I agree its not good for everything. But good enough for most things

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

yeah similar, though I was never good at c / c++. I get it enough to make things with it but not enough to work on a pro coder team with an established codebase. I'd be lost! 😅

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Very cool and compact, these are great! Especially loving the feel of lsys4js. And it outputs SVG! I can see the print/plot benefits! I'd love to see your work published through our platform BlockGen Art. We're a small band of code rebels exploring possibilities. Reach out if that interests you

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

"Courage Over the Abyss" Part of a small collection. Releases 13th Apr. #genart #cardano #BlockGen

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The final compile turns it into a standalone single block of semi-readable code, attached shows full code for a piece and how it looks. It gets minified to 1 or 2 character variables, turned into a url with embedded data. Its size means it fits in a blockchain token pool.pm/asset1s79pfc...

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

It sure is a challenge, no I keep all the variable names as full in the code. It forces you to make every mechanism as fundamental as possible, often choosing compactness over performance. I write it so that its maximizes effectiveness for the minifier, tried many of them, Terser is my preferred

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Creation journey notes⚪️Part 9 What? yet more random notes?!! oooh yes! :) We're not even half way!

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Creation journey notes⚪️Part 7 Big respect to everyone still with me at this point! ❤️‍🔥 Diving into a battle with space warps so strap in! #creativecodiing

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I'd stopped posting these because I figured nobody was interested but maybe I was wrong. So here's a few more pages from this project Creation journey notes⚪️Part 5 (raw, unedited! So expect mistakes!) #generativeart #creativecoding #javascript

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Spend a few years dabbling with UE too, mostly for visual effects, but its blueprint nodes are slow, and too many times I've gone under the hood to the c++ side to add features and suffered mental pain with what felt like untraversable macros/templates and debugging hell

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Ah ok. I get you. Yeah that would work pretty well for my recursive node structures. I'd just have to process it breadth first, in parallel, then advance to the next depth level, so all of the ending positions for the previous level are available to the next depth. Code would change but not much

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Though if I was doing an art installation where I know the hardware I'd probably use unity for that. It makes sense for that. Plus its very handy for shaders, parallel processing and a million other things that would be pretty handy

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

My art is html + js without libs and a size constraint of 16kb. So its limited by the browser DOM for parallel processing... or at least that's how I think it is. I do use Unity and c# too but not currently for art. I need it portable, tiny and maximum comparable. So html+js ticks that box

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Hard to do but geometry shaders would be the way to go. Migrate the parallel stuff to the gpu and construct the strips there. Though one hard thing is that the branch end points arnt known until after a strip is built. So, it would hinder parallel computation unless its designed differently

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I expected that it could be 10-20x faster with c++. But I'm no expert on that! Just grass is greener syndrome C++ multi threading + low level optimised operations. For the large structures in my js tests it took 100-150ms + to build 1000nodes with 1000-5000 verts per node

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Charles Machin - Code Art @cmcodeart.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Aaah cool! its a fun kind of geometry to play with, theres so many structural choices and fun possibilities to explore, I only tried a few things. Recursive rules, that kind of thing. I wrote most of it up. Something like this would be great in c++. You could regen in realtime. Fuuuun! :)

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