There are countless websites that generate color palettes, but I needed a reusable package for my own apps. So I built dittoTones. 🟣 It mimics the perceptual DNA (Lightness/Chroma curves) of popular systems and blends them with your target hue → meodai.github.io/dittoTones/

Really enjoyed this conversation with Tyler Hobbs during his recent book signing event at Unit London, where we talk about generative art & our creative process. 🤗 Full 1hr+ recording (!!) in the link below: → unitlondon.com/2025-07-09/i...

For some super arcane deep cuts, I've ported JT Nimoy's "Textension" vector font (1999) and Douglas Hofstadter's "Letter Spirit" gridfonts (c.1987-1996) to p5.js, now available in my archive of p5-single-line-font-resources: github.com/golanlevin/p...

About Colors 色について kyndinfo.notion.site/About-Colors... #p5js #math #physics #code #art

using an evolutionary algorithm to paint Mona Lisa in 200 rectangles— 🔧 source code in JS: github.com/mattdesl/snes

Generating vibrant palettes with Kubelka-Munk pigment mixing, using 5 primaries (blue, yellow, red, white, black). The routine selects 2 pigments and a random concentration of the two; although it can extend to higher dimensions by sampling the N-dimensional pigment simplex.

Research/experiments building an OSS implementation of practical and real-time Kubelka-Munk pigment mixing. Not yet as good as Mixbox, but getting closer. Comparing LUT (32x32x32 stored in PNG) vs a small neural net (2 hidden layers, 16 neurons).

a late #genuary—"gradients only" working on an open source pigment mixing library, based on Kubelka-Munk theory. left: before KM mixing right: after KM mixing

Final few hours to mint a Bitframes before the crowdfund closes and edition size is locked. 100% of net proceeds are being directed to a documentary on the history of generative art. 📽️ Closes today at 5PM GMT (UK time). → bitframes.io

Added some plotter and high-res print tools to the open source Bitframes GitHub repo: Tools— print-bitframes.surge.sh Code— github.com/mattdesl/bit...

Last week to mint and contribute to the Bitframes crowdfund! 100% of net proceeds are going to the production of a documentary film on the history of generative & computer art. 🎬 → bitframes.io

COMPUTER ART IN THE MAINFRAME ERA— A ~40 min interview with professor and computer art history scholar Grant D. Taylor that I conducted during R&D for Bitframes. Listen → bitframes.io/episodes/1

Bitframes - an NFT project / crowdfunding initiative by @mattdesl.bsky.social to produce a documentary on #generativeart bitframes.io

Bitframes #1603

My contribution to @mattdesl.bsky.social awesome Bitframes project. Token ID 1226.

happy to be part of bitframes.io by @mattdesl.bsky.social and support generativefilm.io :) bitframes #1188 and #1189

Thank you Marcin for supporting the project & film! ❤️

Bitframes #1153 (bitframes.io by @mattdesl.bsky.social)

hello, minimalism. happy to have contributed to @mattdesl.bsky.social's crowdfunded generative art film.

Bitframes #857 by @mattdesl.bsky.social

Made a little contribution to @mattdesl.bsky.social's new project. It's a crowdfunded documentary about the the history of generative art. https://bitframes.io/gallery/token/903

Bitframes No. 752 + 754 💜 @mattdesl.bsky.social One of them even looks like a Mexican pattern in some parts 🤩

I couldn't resist this one. I might make a quilt version. #747 @mattdesl.bsky.social bitframes.io

Sketch breakdown

Small detail in Bitframes—cells are filled by many horizontal & vertical hatch marks. I turn each of these marks into a 2D path to control the roundness of the end caps, rather than being stuck with the very circular arcs of Canvas2D lines. Code below: github.com/mattdesl/bit...

Some Bitframes tech/webdev notes: I ended up dropping the workers and offscreen canvas code. I found that sync (main thread) rendering with careful canvas pooling & caching, intersection testing, and rAF-deferred render queues was much simpler, more cross platform, and felt just as smooth.

Nearly 500 mints already! Thanks for all the support so far. ❤️ See them all: bitframes.io/gallery

what a great initiative! #genart

Minted bitforms #93. Great project.

BITFRAMES— an open source generative artwork & film crowdfund, powered by Highlight. 100% of net proceeds are being directed toward the production of a feature-length documentary film on the history of generative art. → bitframes.io Nov 22 – Dec 20

Bitframes — website is live! ✨ → bitframes.io An open source generative artwork & documentary film crowdfund powered by Highlight, launching tomorrow (Friday Nov 22, 5PM GMT). 100% of net proceeds are being directed to the film production.

A really good in-depth interactive article on the techniques, tricks and subtleties of antialiasing: blog.frost.kiwi/analytical-a...

New plotter-oriented SVG export library for @p5xjs by @golan.bsky.social! p5.plotSvg makes it easier than ever to generate vector files specifically tailored for pen-plotters like those from Bantam Tools. github.com/golanlevin/p... #creativeCoding #generativeArt #plotter #plotterArt

some loops (and a circle) — colour pigment simulations

Spoke with @monkantony.bsky.social from LeRandom about my next project, Bitframes—a generative artwork and documentary film crowdfund powered by Highlight. Link here: → www.lerandom.art/editorial/ma... Launching this Friday, Nov 22. Will share more details leading up to launch. 👀

BITFRAMES — An open source generative artwork and blockchain-based crowdfund inspired by punched cards and the mainframe computing era. More details to come soon! 👀

First release of @texel/color—a minimal and modern color library for JavaScript. 🎨 Features: - extremely fast - extremely compact - oklab, p3, rec2020, a98rgb, prophoto, srgb + more - gamut mapping + wide gamut support Repo → github.com/texel-org/co...

Great post, attempting to replicate from first principles and the experimental results from a 1931 paper how color spaces work

Are you interested in a conference/festival hybrid that tries to combine the vibes of Strangeloop and Resonate? Then you'll be pleased to learn that I'm helping organize exactly that for the first Berlin edition of @causalislands.com this October! causalislands.com/berlin/intro...

Benchmarking a tiny Sobel image filter with JS + WASM. Zig is currently winning in performance, and about as small as JS (or perhaps smaller, in some applications). ⚡️ Rust code is in the repo but haven't added it to the benchmark yet; PRs welcome! → https://github.com/mattdesl/wasm-bench

giving an intro workshop on art, coding and blockchains next week https://github.com/stc/generative-art-workshop

I'm helping judge the first Tiny Awards, a free/open competition highlighting the best of the small, playful, and heartfelt web from the last year. The winner gets $500 and a little trophy, so send in all your favorite non-commercial web sites/pages/projects by June 14! https://tinyawards.net/

“the cloud” → https://gist.github.com/mattdesl/87a14b6b5af05f2758192bf8a2f170a4

color-spd — a small learning tool that lets you construct a color from a spectral power distribution, defined as a smooth cubic spline. https://github.com/mattdesl/color-spd

it seems fitting that i start this account and post this blog post on the same day https://inconvergent.net/2023/a-vector-dsl/ (it is about programming, common lisp, art, the usual)

“color swatch”—a small OSS tool for color interaction across a range of color spaces, desktop only for now. https://github.com/mattdesl/colorswatch

another color tidbit: two colors with different spectral power distributions (graphing reflectance at each wavelength) can appear the same to humans because our 3 cones compress the visible spectrum. laser orange might look the same as red + half green. these are known as “metameric colors”.