Generative art is an interesting niche. It has some points of contact with the demoscene of the olden days (the eyecandy part mostly) but the emphasis seems to be on easier to use tools (like Processing), maybe even aimed at people new to coding, as opposed to the technical depth and proficiency most appreciated on the demoscene.<p>Also I think most generative art works I've seen consist of a single scene, as opposed to a demoscene production that has more of a music video clip vibe.
It misses the program Debris (or Visual Debris?). It'd use a search engine such as Google Images to download pictures and blend them with each other. The result was a unique, colorful experience which was unique every time, where you could look into and try to figure out what is included (it had a NSFW filter, and also allowed you to include search words). You could save the result to a lossy format, but you could also edit the canvas to remove pictures it found. IIRC it was made by a NullSoft employee who also worked on other visualization plugins in WinAmp (unfortunately I don't have a link!). I used it in the early '00s, though it was Windows only. I don't remember if I got it to work on Wine.<p>Nowadays I have Bing Wallpaper on most of my machines. Every day I get a curated, unique wallpaper of the day (the Bing background of the day). Sometimes I like it, sometimes not. No matter which machine I'm on though, the wallpaper is the same for every machine. I'm not a Bing user other than that but I love this Bing feature!<p>[EDIT]I found it! Debris Visual Art [1][/EDIT]<p>[1] <a href="https://fileforum.com/detail/Debris-Visual-Art/1190339066/1" rel="nofollow">https://fileforum.com/detail/Debris-Visual-Art/1190339066/1</a>
Also <a href="https://observablehq.com/collection/@observablehq/generative-art" rel="nofollow">https://observablehq.com/collection/@observablehq/generative...</a>
Love the list. Only bit of feedback would be to improve the UI a bit. Instead of a table, use a grid of cards? Or list of cards? Adding filters would also be useful.