JavaScript Art: Session 1 - Contemporary

10 or so years ago when I was big into ActionScript, I bought a book called Flash Math Creativity that really inspired me to make some expressive visuals. By creating and cloning "nodes" and by writing algorithms to alter the position and style of subsequent nodes, we can make some really fun art pieces using simple math.

Since this lesson is browser-based, we'll use JavaScript instead of ActionScript, and for this lesson we'll support Class A browsers. ActionScript and JavaScript are both ECMAScript so feel free to apply logic across both platforms. You can add support for legacy Internet Explorer on your own time, but keep in mind the JScript engine is terribly slow and there is a good chance your masterpiece will crash an old IE8 install.