Grids in Nature, Design and Generative Art

Grids have been used for centuries to transform ideas into tangible designs. They offer a simple, but effective framework, for organizing space and breaking down information into quantified units that we can more easily reckon with. As a generative artist who uses code as a medium, I rely on grids as foundational objects for building complex computational drawings. In this article, I’d like to explore how grids can be observed in both nature and culture, and how I use them for creative coding. By the end, I hope you will take a new perspective on the nature of grids, and gain practical insight for how grids are used in creative coding to make generative art.

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Code as a Creative Medium

Most of my work requires some level of code—either creative visual or sonic output, or to bring a kinetic sculpture life. Creative coding is wide.

According to Golan Levin and Tega Brain, experts in creative coding pedagogy for over 30 years, “It’s difficult to overstate the importance of computational literacy in the 21st-century life. Computer programming, once an esoteric skill in engineering and business, has now acquired broad applicability in fine arts, design, architecture, music, humanities, journalism, activism, poetry, and many other creative fields.”

If you’re interested in this code and computation in an arts context I invite you to read my article on using code as a creative medium, written for Creative Pinellas Magazine. There I discuss my practices as a creative coder and highlight other artists who inspired me to discover code as a creative medium.

https://creativepinellas.org/magazine/code-as-a-creative-medium/