Centrum Par is a website that functions as a living, breathing interface where large, abstract digital paintings—rendered with the rich textures of clay, pigment, and organic filaments—exist in a constant state of subtle flux.

Created by David Hoe (Mini Cloud Studios) from London, and currently on Kickstarter, 'Modern Map Art Prints' is a collection of detailed maps transformed into colourful abstract art prints of anywhere in the world. The project celebrates the joys of travel and the unique fingerprint of every city from above – it is a crossover of modern maps and...

From the Digital Citizens Lab to making Processing more accessible – Lauren McCarthy, Los Angeles-based artist and Processing Foundation board member, surveys the work of the 2016 Processing fellows and sheds light on the Foundation’s 5-month fellowship program.

Directed and developed by Moniker and Studio Puckey, Out of Line involves hundreds of animated lines being drawn by visitors on top of the music video. All drawn lines are saved on their servers and are then rendered into the video to be seen by future visitors.

Weird Second-order Loops is a series of computer-generated animation loops that never repeat. Each of the loops is centred around a playful and simple cyclical idea that is a procedural reinterpretation of a long existing animation cliché, potentiating it ad infinitum.

Patatap is a portable animation and sound kit for iOS that allows you to play with versatile melodies charged with colourful geometric graphics.

Baroque.me by Alexander Chen visualizes the first Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suites by drawing notes as strings. Instead of a stream of classical notation on a page, this interactive project highlights the music’s underlying structure and subtle shifts. I created eight strings, as the Prelude’s natural phrasing is in groups of eight notes. The or...

Impulse 101 is a diptych, half painting/half beamer, 100% on the internet. Anthony Antonellis began with the 4 font characters of 8-bit Block ASCII, ░ ▒ ▓ █. The end results consists of two 100 x 100 cm canvases. The left (black) side is acrylic on canvas, while the right is a beamer projection of ASCII art […]

(A Generative Art Lost Chapter) Through the process of writing Generative Art there were various tangents and miscellaneous-mad-shit that, usually in the name of brevity and clarity, ended up on the cutting room floor. What follows is one such tangent reworked into a brief tutorial. In the week that the Processing 2.0 Beta gets its […]

Latest by Justin Windle is this ‘Super Recursion Toy’ created using Canvas. He writes: Revisiting one of my favorite topics – recursion. This canvas based tool allows you to explore branching algorithms & rendering techniques, as well as save a snapshot of your creations. It’s also open source, which is always nice…

Simple but we love it,  DrippingPaint.Js by Tim Holman the latest “features javascript” on CAN creating a sort of dripping paint effect in the background of the screen. Click top right corner button for demo. I’ve only been doing these little experiments for a few months, and this was one of my first, so it holds […]

Confetti is the latest Javascript feature on CAN, created by Patrik Svensson. If you click on the button at the top right corner the script will be activated. Patrick explains: There are two types of confetti, the traditional pieces of ‘paper’ and a ribbon type that wiggles its way down the screen. The ribbon confetti uses […]

Created by Jürg Lehni & Jonathan Puckey, Paper.js is an open source vector graphics scripting framework that runs on top of the HTML5 Canvas.

Jean Helfenstein, the name behind Rot.Sketch iPhone app has just launched an HTML5 experiment that allows you to produce spirograph like drawings. In addition you can draw new elements while others are rendering as well as move the centre around which lines rotate. webapp : http://www.jeanhelfenstein.com/rotsketch/app + flickr gallery for more i...

Latest piece by Rafaël Rozendaal takes you on a journey of colour cubes, navigated with a double click. Wonderful! towardsandbeyond.com Rafaël Rozendaal makes websites as art pieces, pieces are sold with domain name, work remains public, name of collector in title bar. Collectors in France, UK, Spain, NL and Austria. Lived in Amsterdam, Rio, Los...

This is the personal playground of Hakim El Hattab, exploring what is possible using HTML5 and Canvas. Most recent addition includes Sinuous, a simple game built using canvas which will test your mouse pointer reflexes by having you direct your cursor against incoming meteors. My other personal favourites include Blob, Magnetic, Particle Depth a...