I can recommend following books: Code Generation in Action by Jack Herrington (lots of Ruby) Generative Programming by Krzysztof Czarnecki and Ulrich W. Eisenecker (many ideas explained) Framing Software Reuse by Paul G. Bassett (old but has nice ideas) Program Generators with XML and Java by J. Craig Cleaveland (heavy on XML front) ...
I've been putting a lot of thought into procedural generation of content for a while and I've never seen much experimentation with procedural music. We have fantastic techniques for generating models, animations, textures, but music is still either completely static or simply layered loops (e.g. Spore). Because of that, I've been think...
This is intended as a question quite open to any suggestions, hints or pointers. I wish to start playing around with home brewed automated investment models, the beginnings of which I have concepts for. I'm familiar with a few frameworks/languages that I suspect might be able to help me in this. Suggestions regarding other languages than...
I'm trying to scatter movie clips around the stage using Actionscript 3 in a way that looks as though they were randomly placed there, like photographs spread out on a table top. I tried using a spiral type arrangement, but found it too uniform, and also a circular distribution, but found that too random. The other factor is that i'd l...
How would you define/create generative typography ? I thought also of some sort of "intelligent" adaption. For example a font that uses serifs in certain condition or not… Are there some findings in how you could access the vectors of a font in actionscript ? ...