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I dig it lol. It reminds me of a t-shirt site a few friends and I made https://wearwiki.com It's cool that wikipedia shared so much data! Nice to donate to them if we got some extra funds.

For me nfts provide an easier way for me to support digital artists I love that I've been following for a while.

I don't really like the collectable scarcity kind of thing, but I like building a collection and having an easy way to explore and find art and artists. Also a lot of these websites are providing this art at higher resolutions and quality than social media would allow for (IPFS) and without direct hosting.

I think it's here to stay in some form but it'll definitely undergo some change.

Not everything exists for function, let's enjoy our time.

Ah gotcha. Now that I've re-read it it looks misleading as well hah. Too bad I can't edit titles :/

Thanks for checking out the project! I really appreciate it.

Hi! Thanks so much checking out this project.

Here's the full algorithm (not mobile friendly): https://anemy.github.io/sofloo-spot I found the gradients don't print as well on shirts.

Tech Stack: React, Redux, Node.js, MongoDB, Sendgrid (Emailing), Printful (Shirt API), Stripe (Billing), Amazon S3 (Image hosting) I'm using MongoDB's free-tier Atlas on this project and it's awesome. This project was also started while I worked there :D ​

The algorithm creates an svg which we render into html canvas and then build an image from that. We do some pre-rendering and tricks on mobile, since the svg creation only really works on chrome desktop.

Going forward I'm planning to clean up the code base, and hopefully open source.

Happy to answer questions :D

Disclaimer: I'm a frontend/fullstack dev. One of the methods I use is browsing other sites and taking inspiration. You can even inspect their elements if you'd like to see how they the style (don't copy paste!).

Other suggestions: - Team up with someone with some ui skills

- Use a css framework: https://github.com/troxler/awesome-css-frameworks

- Choose a color scheme and add some margin and padding to everything and stick to the scheme.

- React component libraries are becoming much more general purpose and easier to use. If you're up to sinking a few hours into it, try create-react-app (https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app) and then use a react component library like material ui (https://github.com/mui-org/material-ui)

Generative art is a fascinating space - it's in its infancy for sure - I've been getting into it this past year and wrote my first algorithm about a year ago:

https://anemy.github.io/concentric/

Like all art, it comes down to who witnesses it, and how it makes them feel. However - there's a definite gap between seeing something in real life versus digitally which I'd like to see Naon bridge. There's a large community of plotters which are doing a good job of bringing generative art into the real world. Definitely worth checking out the twitter hashtag:

https://twitter.com/hashtag/plottertwitter?src=hash

Naon cranks out amazing compositions at an astounding rate, it makes me real happy to see him get some good exposure like this.

One of the cofounders of Etsy, Jared Tarbell, is also a great artist and worth checking out: http://www.complexification.net/gallery/

If you'd like to see more generative works, the subreddit is a good starting place: https://www.reddit.com/r/generative/

Wew! Nice write up - I'm a huge fan of Tarbell's work. I'm curious if generative art lead him to found Etsy.

This field is still in its infancy - I'm excited for the future.

I wrote a generative art algorithm a bit ago - check it out :D - https://anemy.github.io/concentric/#/

Thanks for checking out the project! :D It's open source on github: https://github.com/Anemy/concentric

I've posted a couple of my favorites on dribbble: https://dribbble.com/Scotsley

AMA! Share any cool ones you generate!