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A repository of generative art book resources
https://github.com/cdr6934/awesome-generative-books
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A repository of generative art book resources
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/cdr6934/awesome-generative-books
- Owner: cdr6934
- Created: 2020-11-28T16:10:06.000Z (about 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2023-12-11T13:31:44.000Z (about 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-05-23T04:05:12.901Z (7 months ago)
- Topics: algoart, awesome, awesome-list, books, creative-coding, generative, generative-art, processing
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- Stars: 53
- Watchers: 6
- Forks: 9
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
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README
# Books
The following books are resources that I've found helpful in discovering the interesting nuances of generative art. There is much to be said and will continue to improve over time.
## English
| Name | Published | Author | Category | Rating |
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------|-------------------------------------------------|----------------------------|--------|
|[Digital Design Theory: Readings from the Field](https://amzn.to/3kuoWNu) | 2016 | Helen Armstrong | General | |
|[The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation](https://amzn.to/36u5mM4) | 2000 | Gary William Flake | Processing | |
|[Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture](https://amzn.to/2IzW3lM) | 2010 | Casey Reas, Chandler McWilliams | Processing, p5.js | |
|[Getting Started with p5.js: Making Interactive Graphics in JavaScript and Processing](https://amzn.to/2ICWcVy) | 2015 | Lauren McCarthy, Casey Reas, Ben Fry | Processing | |
|[Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists](https://amzn.to/32J8B1j) | 2014 | Casey Reas, Ben Fry | Processing | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
|[The Nature of Code ](https://amzn.to/2KafEtt) | 2012 | Daniel Shiffman | Processing | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
|[Truthful Art, The: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication (Voices That Matter](https://amzn.to/2IFbTM2) | 2016 | Alberto Cairo | Data Graphics | |
|[Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment](https://amzn.to/3nn8X5A) | 2008 | Ben Fry | Data Graphics | |
|[Data Flow 2: Visualizing Information in Graphic Design](https://amzn.to/36zLvvg) | 2010 | Robert Klanten, Sven Ehmann | Data Graphics | |
|[Dear Data](https://amzn.to/36u714g) | 2016 | Giorgia, Stefanie Posavec | Data Graphics | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
|[Visualization Analysis and Design ](https://amzn.to/3lym5Ez) | 2014 | Tamara Munzner | Data Graphics | |
|[Envisioning Information](https://amzn.to/32JYv06) | 1990 | Edward Tufte | Data Graphics | |
|[The Visual Display of Quantitative Information ](https://amzn.to/3nxpXq1) | 2001 | Edward Tufte | Data Graphics | |
|[Designing Programmes: Programme as Typeface, Typography, Picture, Method](https://amzn.to/2Uvi8o4) | 2009 | Karl Gerstner | Aesthetics | |
|[Point and Line to Plane](https://amzn.to/3psJLMS) | 1979 | Wassily Kandinsky | Aesthetics | |
|[Visual Grammar: A Design Handbook](https://amzn.to/3nslEfr) | 2006 | Christian Leborg | Aesthetics | |
|[White Heat Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960–1980](https://amzn.to/35xKZ1v) | 2009 | Paul Brown | History | |
|[Morphing](https://amzn.to/36PwC80) | 2015 | Joseph Choma | | ⭐⭐⭐ |
|[Hands-On Music Generation with Magenta](https://amzn.to/32TBAzu) | 2020 | Alexandre DuBreuil | | |
|[Math for Programmers](https://amzn.to/2IQzaus) | 2020 | Paul Orland | | |
|[Physics for JavaScript Games, Animation, and Simulations](https://amzn.to/2UHxsyg) | 2014 | Adrian Dobre, Dev Ramtal | | |
|[Anton's OpenGL 4 Tutorials](https://amzn.to/38XuCxh) | 2014 | Anton Gerdelan | | |
|[Graphics Shaders: Theory and Practice](https://amzn.to/2Hkk2VM) | 2016 | Mike Bailey, Steve Cunningham | | |
|[Real-Time Rendering](https://amzn.to/3fgiskf) | 2013 | Tomas Akenine-Möller, Eric Haines, Naty Hoffman | | |
|[Ray Tracing in One Weekend](https://amzn.to/2UJl14V) | 2013 | Peter Shirley | | |
|[Playing with chaos](https://amzn.to/36KeVa8) | 2013 | Keith Peters | Javascript | |
|[Foundation HTML5 Animation with JavaScript](https://amzn.to/3faoTVO) | 2011 | Billy Lamberta), Keith Peters | Javascript | |
|[Algorithms for Visual Design Using the Processing Language](https://amzn.to/3lJRZho) | 2009 | Kostas Terzidis | Processing | |
|[Mastering openFrameworks: Creative Coding Demystified](https://amzn.to/3pHOxWQ) | 2013 | Denis Perevalov | C++ | |
|[openFrameworks Essentials](https://amzn.to/36RllnE) | 2012 | Denis Perevalov, Igor (Sodazot) Tatarnikov | C++, OpenFrameworks | |
|[Programming Interactivity](https://amzn.to/3fd86By) | 2015 | Joshua Noble | OpenFrameworks, Processing | |
|[Generative Deep Learning: Teaching Machines to Paint, Write, Compose, and Play](https://amzn.to/32UD7W7) | 2019 | David Foster | Deep Learning | |
|[The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants](http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/#abop) | | Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Aristid Lindenmayer | | |
|[Digital Mantras](https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262082280/digital-mantras/) | 1994 | Steven R. Holtzman | Philosophy | |
|[The Nonlinear Workbook: Chaos, Fractals, Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms](https://amzn.to/333ttAm) | | Willi-Hans Steeb | C++ | |
|[The Symmetry of Things](https://amzn.to/2JqKOg1) | 2009 | John Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim G-Strauss | Mathematics | |
|[Automata: A Historical and Technological Study](https://www.amazon.com/Automata-Historical-Technological-Alfred-Chapuis/dp/B0000CJZDM)|1958|Alfred Chapuis and Edmond Droz|Generative||
|[Mathematical Games: The Fantastic Combinations of John Conway's New Solitaire Game ]()|1970|Martin Gardner|Generative||
|[The Computational Beauty of Nature](https://amzn.to/39BoriB)|1998|Gary William Flake|Generative||
|[The Interaction of Color](https://amzn.to/39OZsc3)|1975|Joseph Albers|Color||.0
|[The Elements of Color](https://amzn.to/36yNCkb)|1970|Johannes Itten|Color||
|[Evolutionary Design by Computers](https://amzn.to/39C8JUz)|1999|Peter Bently|||
|[Abstraction in Art and Nature ](https://amzn.to/36weTDO)|1993|Nathan Cabot Hale|Abstraction||
|[Mathematics and Physics for Programmers](https://amzn.to/2JG6WmB)|1985|Danny Kodicek|Physics||
|[Shape](https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262693677/shape/) | 2008| George Stiny| Design||
|[Data Matter Design](https://www.routledge.com/Data-Matter-Design-Strategies-in-Computational-Design/Melendez-Diniz-Signore/p/book/9780367369095)|2020|Edited Frank Melendez, Nancy Diniz, Marcella Del Signore|Computational Design|||
|[Geometric Patterns with Creative Coding: Coding for the Arts](https://amzn.to/48b55MD)|2023|Selçuk Artut|Coding||
|[Internet_Art](https://www.amazon.com/Internet_Art-Birth-Web-Rise-NFTs/dp/1838664076/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3OR1DKIMFIU66&keywords=internet_art&qid=1701928896&sprefix=internet_ar%2Caps%2C124&sr=8-1)|2023|Omar Kholief|Internet Art|||
|[Digital Art (World of Art)](https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Art-World-Christiane-Paul/dp/0500204802)|2023|Christiane Paul|Art|||