PROMPTS

JAN.1 (credit: Piter Pasma)

// TRIPLE NESTED LOOP

JAN.2 (credit: Harold)

Rule 30 (elementary cellular automaton)

JAN.3 (credit: Sam Corzine)

Make something human.

JAN.4 (credit: Louis-André Labadie)

Small areas of symmetry.

JAN.5 (credit: Louis-André Labadie)

Do some code golf! How little code can you write to make something interesting? Share the sketch and its code together if you can.

JAN.6 (credit: Stevan Dedovic)

Triangle subdivision.

JAN.7 (credit: Louis-André Labadie)

Generate some rules, then follow them by hand on paper.

JAN.8 (credit: Licia He)

Curve only.

JAN.9 (credit: Sam Corzine)

Interference patterns.

JAN.10 (credit: Piter Pasma)

// TREE

JAN.11 (credit: Piter Pasma)

Use something other than a computer as an autonomous process (or use a non-computer random source).

JAN.12 (credit: Jonathan Barbeau)

Use an API (e.g. the weather). Here’s a huge list of free public APIs.

JAN.13 (credit: Louis-André Labadie)

Do not repeat.

JAN.14 (credit: Piter Pasma)

// SUBDIVISION

JAN.15 (credit: Louis-André Labadie)

Let someone else decide the general rules of your piece.

JAN.16 (credit: Aaron Penne)

Circles only

JAN.17 (credit: Louis-André Labadie)

Draw a line, pick a new color, move a bit.

JAN.18 (credit: Piter Pasma)

One process grows, another process prunes.

JAN.19 (credit: Piter Pasma)

Increase the randomness along the Y-axis.

JAN.20 (credit: Aaron Penne)

No loops.

JAN.21 (credit: Harold)

function f(x) { 
    DRAW(x); 
    f(1 * x / 4); 
    f(2 * x / 4); 
    f(3 * x / 4); 
}

JAN.22 (credit: Louis-André Labadie)

Draw a line. Wrong answers only.

JAN.23 (credit: Richard Vigniel)

#264653 #2a9d8f #e9c46a #f4a261 #e76f51, no gradients.

Optionally, you can use a black or white background.

JAN.24 (credit: Aaron Penne)

500 lines.

JAN.25 (credit: Piter Pasma)

Make a grid of permutations of something.

JAN.26 (credit: Stevan Dedovic)

2D Perspective.

JAN.27 (credit: Aaron Penne)

Monochrome gradients without lines.

JAN.28 (credit: Louis-André Labadie)

Use sound.

JAN.29 (credit: Aaron Penne)

Any shape, none can touch.

JAN.30 (credit: Jonathan Barbeau)

Replicate a natural concept (e.g. gravity, flocking, path following).

JAN.31 (credit: Piter Pasma)

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THANKS

Thanks to all of these people for helping out, coming up with prompts, helping make the website, brainstorming, support and being amazing:

Aaron Penne, Amy Goodchild, Harold, Jonathan Barbeau, Licia He, Louis-André Labadie, Michael Lowe, Piter Pasma, Richard Vigniel, Sam Corzine, Stevan Dedovic and Thomas Lin Pedersen.