Ming + PHP5 + AI = Pretty

cyberscribe writes "Project K++ just released its first alpha version today. The project aims to explore computer-generated abstract art using PHP and Ming. The name of the project is an homage to Wassily Kandinsky, father of abstract art. Caution: the Flash movies can be intensive on your graphics card. Other caution: hitting reload to see the next cool computer-generated abstract 'painting' can be highly addictive."

Comments

Re:art?

[Xiph]

however, the work of programmers who created it could be considered art, the big difference from a painting is that this art is interactive.
the work isn't just the one image, it's the whole thing.

Remember that the algorithms that makes it have been created by someone, and probably tweaked a bit too.
all this tweaking and coding is not that much different to molding a shape out of clay.

Seems like it would be better as a Ming example...

[Granos]

The project itself really doesn't impress me. All the K++ people did was use a random number generator to generate colors, gradients, curve coordinates, circles, etc. The actual cool part (Dynamically genereated fully functional Flash movies through PHP) was all the work of the Ming library coders. This is akin to someone creating a spinning rainbow colored 3D cube in OpenGL or someone applying a ton of Photoshop filters to a cool picture of the sky. It looks nice to someone who doesn't know how it was made, but in reality, all of the challenging and innovative things were done by the person who programmed the library, not the person who used some very basic implementation of the library.

Where's the AI?

[amacedo]

I seriously fail to spot the AI in this.

Random number generation is more likely, but I doubt any AI techniques are needed or applicable to this.