I know some of you like coding.
I know some of you like art.
I've just rediscovered this gem of a program and thought I'd share.

http://www.contextfreeart.org/

Basically, you code pictures with some simple rules, like the ones at the bottom of this post and make pictures that way. Recently some cool stuff has been added like the ability to code primitives and grids and whatnot, but whatever. The cool thing is that it's all based on chance, so one set of rules can produce a huge number of variations (which you can also share w/ the alphanumeric seed)

Here's an example output (ALI variation of below, I think):


Reading through the code should be self explanatory to anyone who's done programming before, otherwise see http://www.contextfreeart.org/mediawiki ... CFDG_HOWTO



It'd be cool to see what you guys do with this. I used to use them for inspiration for drawings.

Really off topic, but if someone could use that to make a base in CC I would buy them a pint. (All legal restrictions apply)

That's very likely what I was getting around to. Problem is you'd have to use the algorithm to spit out bunkermodule code, not squares. If someone wants to write a converter, though, I can write a mapgen (maybe)

Rather than writing a converter, I would have thought it'd be easier to make your own tile-based random walk map gen and then use a bitwise tile map to get the bunker modules to place.

I don't recognize that coding type, the one im used to is sort a like this

Probably on my side though.

The language is native to the program.

Indeed, but considering how flexible CF is it'd be easy to write different rules for different layouts, and even get terrain generation happening at the same time.

That is true. You mentioned in the OP that you can have it do grids?
Time to do some experimentation with this, I think.

Well I have to say this is awesome. I never though I would be so happily spending hours of my life creating images with mathematical formulae. Plus, this program is almost criminously easy to learn to use.

On a sidenote, I think I've discovered the mathematical equivalent of creepy:

How do you do that?



I am quite thoroughly impressed.

Basically, reducing cartoony faces to simple shapes (almost everything is a circle) and telling the program to place them in a semi-random disposition over an offset.
The cool part is that it's purely vectorial, so I can get it in any size I want.







See?



EDIT: Oh, and I can post the code if you want. Made it this afternoon.

Please do.

Here it is. Just copypaste it into the console. But you probably already know that.

Wow, for whatever reason I am spectacularly failing to accomplish anything worthwhile with this program

the online documentation (or lack thereof) doesn't help much

The Gallery is the best place to find examples of code, paul.

Areku, that's cool. Something about a million creepy faces is fun.

Just check the Shape Adjustments page. Quick reference without all that clutter from the rest of the site.