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My first generative art bot — @417am1975, running since 2017. It picks a random art script, renders a piece with node-canvas, and tweets it, on the hour, on its own.

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And boy did he make some dope shit. Each piece came from a simulation run on a node-canvas tick after tick, changing the image pixel by pixel, which in my mind is similar to how an artist manipulates a canvas. It's different from generating an image once, because you can build, augment and layer in interesting ways.

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I like it as an artifact of how I was using the robots to make art before AI, and how that changes my perspective on things as a computer-aided artist.

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Twitter Artbot — generative piece 1
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Twitter Artbot — generative piece 2
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Twitter Artbot — generative piece 3
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Twitter Artbot — generative piece 4
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Twitter Artbot — generative piece 5
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Twitter Artbot — generative piece 6
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Twitter Artbot — generative piece 7
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Twitter Artbot — generative piece 8
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Twitter Artbot — generative piece 9
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There's a ton still up at @417am1975.

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