January 4, 2024

Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #89

Tony's Pick

Piet is a weird little programming language that uses colors in an image instead of characters in a text file. The examples aren't all beautiful, but I do like this Hello World.

Kyle's Pick

Bouncing off of Tony's pick, Shader Park looks neat as a generative art tool. It relies on "signed distance fields" (SDFs) under the hood, which are handy for creating complex shapes with noise added in.

Here is a short post where someone shows off a few of their creations. The example below was done with 5 lines of code (and looks very cool in motion):

There are many more "sculptures" on the Shader Park "Explore" page.