Hi there! My name is raza (aka 079).
I’ve dedicated my life to making art - I enjoy coding generative art as well as composing music for piano.
See below for a selection of my work.
sodapop
sodapop was my very first fxhash gen art project. It’s a basic circle packing algorithm using some of my favorite colors. Think of it as my “hello world” project :D
redline
redline was my second project on fxhash - and perhaps my most successful on multiple fronts. It was a project inspired by an old Tyler Hobb’ IG post - I simply took his idea and made it generative. I love how a few simple rules created such varied and interesting pieces. I hope I can replicate these factors in future projects!
relic
relic is one of my favorite projects to look at. It was my most time-consuming project at that point in my journey, but overall I liked how it turned out. I like all the layers and how the missing pieces in each layer create visually interesting outputs. I really had to brush up on my trigonometry for this one! If I had to do it again, I would explore different color palettes and also remove the black outline from the shapes.
redblack
redblack was a very simple project I did just to get back into the swing of things after a few months away from making gen art. It’s a project based on rectangles and line patterns. I believe my outputs in testing were much nicer than what came out in the mints, so the lesson learned is I need to code up much more robust algorithms so that only high quality outputs are produced - regardless of the incoming randomness.
threads
threads was my Thanksgiving break project. Getting time off work always results in me taking all that time and energy and putting it into my creative projects. In this case, I had a desire to learn how to code a pegs and bands style project a la Ringers, and of course I wanted to make it my own in my typically minimalist but pretty style. This was the result! I was so happy with the variety of outputs that were created. This project made me believe that I have the skills to be amazing gen artist, I just have to keep creating and putting myself out there.
citylines
citylines is my latest project launching on fxhash. I was inspired by isometric building drawings and so I decided to learn how to code them myself. As usual the project took a life of its own and I ended up with some cool city generation logic, as well as some nice distributions of buildings aka “city splits”. I added a pyramid building type as well as some nice line patterns on the buildings. Overall, I’m very pleased how the project turned out and I’m very much looking forward to doing more isometric gen art in the future!
paintflow
For this project, I wanted to try out Ty Vek's SVG technique for creating gen art. I used some basic SVG filters to achieve the paint brush effect, then just added some simple line and curve patterns. The result is quite nice and organic feeling! There are only 2 colors: red and black - I felt it was important to focus on the shapes and lines rather than the colors. The number of curves varies from 2 to 4, and each can be filled above or below. That's the gist of it!
