GROW Paris is an event about creative coding, taking place in Paris, if you’re not familiar with the event, make sure to check out the previous edition gallery. This year is a bit different, smaller in scope and french speaking only ; the .5 in GROW 2.5 …

a love letter to the creative-dev community Dear you, if you read this, chances are that you were involved in GROW at a level or another (attendee, speaker, volunteer, technician, organizer) and I want you to know that you are beautiful. I’ve always wanted to host a big party and…

part 2 of 2: process and systems — In the first part of this post, we explored the nature of generative systems, we emphasized the importance of data and space in generative design and highlighted the process as a third component. THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM before we start, I need to disambiguate what will follow from a field that may seem identical…

part 1 of 2: PCG, data and space — 1. PROCEDURAL CONTENT GENERATION (PCG) The essence of generative design is to use functions — simple, independent actions — and algorithms — series of actions required to solve a given task — to build systems that create series of non-repeating results. PCGs encompass the programmatic generation of content, they often rely on pseudo-random data and…

I worked with WebGL for the past four years and I always try to get the 3D assets’ batch conversion sorted from the very begining of a project. The main reason for starting with it is that the models will always change and it will change until the very last…