Author
Ahmad Moussa

Ahmad Moussa

Creative coder and Generative Artist. Creator of the Gorilla Sun Blog.

202 posts

Newsletter
Gorilla Newsletter 22

Kaloh interviews Artnome - Maya Man's "I'm Feeling Lucky" Verse exhibition - LeRandom interview with Maya Man - The Aesthetics of Experimental Chance in Artistic Practice - Eko33's Terra Incognita - William Mapan's Process

2023 SEP 18 · 12 min read
Newsletter
Gorilla Newsletter 21

LeRandom Interviews Dr. A Michael Noll - LACMA interviews William Mapan - Sasha Stiles and Linda Dounia join ARTxCode - Piero's 16 SQRS - landlinesart's curve editor - Tezumie's code editor - Chris McCully writes about LUTs - Makio135 returns to Twitter

2023 SEP 11 · 14 min read
Newsletter
Gorilla Newsletter 20

LeRandom genart timeline chapter 4 - Melissa Wiederrecht RCS spotlight - Tracing the Line by Vetro Editions - P5JS Updates - Alba concludes beta phase - Now There's None of You Left by Xalted - among many other things

2023 SEP 04 · 11 min read
Newsletter
Gorilla Newsletter 19

This week we have a new article from LeRandom - an in depth article by Julian Hespenheide for his project FSM - pxlshrd's new project Rückkoplung - and an awesome article on Bézier Curves by Richard Ekwonye, among other things.

2023 AUG 28 · 11 min read
Feature
Style, Voice and Identity in Generative Art

What is style? As an artist, what makes you, you? Moreover, how do artists find their own stylistic voice? Especially when it comes to generative art? In this article we have a look at the art of Shvembldr, Qubibi, and Aleksandra Jovanić

2023 AUG 24 · 15 min read
Newsletter
Gorilla Newsletter 18

This week RCS published an importent interview with Casey Reas and Lauren Lee McCarthy, Dmitri Cherniak shares a mini-documentary on his upcoming project, and Tyler Hobbs publishes a new article. Among other interesting reads!

2023 AUG 21 · 11 min read
Newsletter
Gorilla Recap 17

Your weekly dose of Genart and creative coding, with a healthy sprinkle of Tech and AI news. Big news from Fxhash, LeRandom chugging along nicely with their genart timeline and a cool project from the Hyundai Artlab. Alongside a mixed bag of interesting reads that I found on the interwebs.

2023 AUG 14 · 11 min read
Feature
The Current State of Social Media

Social media has changed significantly over the past two decades: from networks that aimed to connect people, to content-centric devices that mainly care about engagement and user retention. Many issues arise that are not immediately evident to the user.

2023 AUG 08 · 15 min read
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Gorilla Recap 16

This week we have quite a few generative art updates: Re—tain on TezTalks, Alba's new group show Stranger Skies, several new generative art projects launching - as well as some interesting reads on generative art, digital collectibles and new developments in AI.

2023 AUG 07 · 11 min read
Tutorial
Euler and Verlet Integration for Particle Physics

Verlet Integration is an alternative approach to implement an simulate particle physics programmatically, in contrast to the commonly used Euler Integration. It is in many ways more robust in terms of energy conservation.

2023 AUG 03 · 22 min read
Newsletter
Gorilla Recap 15

This week we mainly dive into some cool AI things, like StackOverflow's own chatbot that will greatly improve the debugging experience. Alongside a cornucopia of interesting tech related topics that I curated over the course of the week! And the usual sprinkle of Gorilla stuff! Enjoy!

2023 JUL 31 · 11 min read
Tutorial
Programming Soft Body Physics and Blobs

One approach to modeling deformable objects in computer graphics are spring-mass systems: a technique that allows us to bring Soft Body physics to life. Picking up from the particle mesh that we created last time; in this post we'll tackle different configurations for blob-like shapes.

2023 JUL 27 · 26 min read