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Five years of Turtletoy: a minimalistic, generative art platform

Five years of Turtletoy: a minimalistic, generative art platform

Five years ago, I launched Turtletoy, an online platform that enables users to create plottable generative art using a simple Turtle graphics API. Today, Turtletoy continues to be a popular destination for artists looking for plotter-friendly vector graphics. Why Turtletoy?

reinder October 21, 2023January 22, 2025 Javascript, Turtletoy Read more

Truchet Tiles: Simple Rules, Infinite Patterns

Truchet Tiles: Simple Rules, Infinite Patterns

I’ve been playing with Truchet tiles in my latest Turtletoy project. Let me explain what Truchet tiles are and why they’re cool for generative art. What are Truchet Tiles? Think of a grid made of squares. Now, instead of leaving

reinder October 15, 2019October 6, 2024 Javascript, Turtletoy Read more

3D Line Art Engine (port)

3D Line Art Engine (port)

I have ported most of “ln, The 3D Line Art Engine” by @FogleBird to javascript so it can be used on Turtletoy. The engine can create drawings of 3D scenes, that you can plot using a pen plotter, which naturally

reinder January 13, 2019April 14, 2024 Javascript, Turtletoy Read more

Procedural cubic city

Procedural cubic city

This is an experiment in drawing a simple procedural city. The basis of the city was initially a Rhombille tiling (2D). By drawing randomly placed doors and windows on each hexagon, the illusion of a 3D city is created.

reinder December 14, 2018December 27, 2022 Turtletoy Read more

Turtletoy

Turtletoy

I spent some spare time creating Turtletoy: an online platform that allows you to create generative art online using a minimalistic javascript Turtle graphics API.

reinder November 14, 2018January 20, 2024 Turtletoy Read more

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