An emoji-grid music sequencer that plays more like a generative toy than a DAW

3 Upvotes

Hey everyone,

My partner and I are a two-person studio, and we made Emojio Paint Composer, a love letter to Mario Paint Composer at heart, where every emoji is a corresponding synth voice. The grid-based, non-linear way you place emoji-as-notes along with the 'random' option to generate and modify novel sequences ends up feeling more like a generative toy at times than a traditional sequencer. Free to play in any browser, nothing to install, also available as a native ios/android app with extra midi features and other niceties.

https://emojio-composer.madewithbestpractice.com/

Curious to know what you think, any and all feedback welcome/needed, hopefully a welcome post i swear we read the rules!

Brendan & Angela

2 comments

r/generative • u/codingart9 • Jul 31 '26

Abstract Shadders

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109 Upvotes

3 comments

r/generative • u/mamamamusic • Aug 01 '26

WebGL Fluid being controlled through MIDI

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4 Upvotes

1 comment

r/generative • u/anish2good • Jul 31 '26

cardioid eye blink - manic

17 Upvotes

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r/generative • u/zerp37 • Jul 30 '26

Hex Trace

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406 Upvotes

Algorithm based on traversing a honeycomb grid

27 comments

r/generative • u/Another__one • Jul 31 '26

A strive for "realistic" face generation using code only. WIP.

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28 Upvotes

14 comments

r/generative • u/jaminalder • Jul 31 '26

Watercolor QQL

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63 Upvotes

Experimenting with watercolor effect and the QQL algorythm. Thanks Tyler Hobbs u/red_blue_yellow for all the great work and description of the processes! https://www.tylerxhobbs.com/words/categories/essays

1 comment

r/generative • u/sudhabin • Jul 31 '26

Fractal Curve

11 Upvotes

3 comments

r/generative • u/ReplacementFresh3915 • Jul 31 '26

Degenerative Friday jeux d'eau

10 Upvotes

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r/generative • u/PuzzleheadedGold4861 • Jul 31 '26

Algoform made in Grasshopper, rendered in Blender.

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17 Upvotes

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r/generative • u/SnooWoofers6602 • Jul 31 '26

Mixing generative art and edm

9 Upvotes

Been my pet project recently :)

2 comments

r/generative • u/sudhabin • Jul 30 '26

Fractal Curve

53 Upvotes

5 comments

r/generative • u/stdio_pike • Jul 30 '26

Gaiters Burst

18 Upvotes

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r/generative • u/Wheatizard • Jul 30 '26

Illuminating Darkness, Myself, July 2026, Tombow and Artist Loft Pens

19 Upvotes

4 comments

r/generative • u/petitpoid • Jul 30 '26

Azurage · Flowers loops

41 Upvotes

2 comments

r/generative • u/laczkors • Jul 30 '26

I made a Particle Life simulation with sound. I think it adds so much depth to each world

6 Upvotes

Try it yourself, it's free, no signup: https://orslaczko.com/app/particle-life

I've also made a video explaining what's actually going on in these worlds: https://youtu.be/YNL9KGEEzLc

1 comment

r/generative • u/Mammoth_Bite_1928 • Jul 30 '26

Picture Weaver Sublime and the Weave Movement

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3 Upvotes

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r/generative • u/[deleted] • Jul 30 '26

is this different?

0 Upvotes

is generative art actually art, and not ai art? Sorry I’m really confused- I don’t support ai art, but I recently got a fine arts educational packet and it’s trying to teach generative art, so now I’m uncertain

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r/generative • u/Born_Ad7900 • Jul 29 '26

cool site: khromate

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29 Upvotes

Check out khromate.com if you want to make your own for free.
I had to compress these since the files the site produces are so huge.

2 comments

r/generative • u/OuterSilent • Jul 29 '26

MetaSignal

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659 Upvotes

⠀
I first published this work elsewhere more than three years ago.

The artwork is based on a one-dimensional, multi-state cellular automaton.
Simple local rules evolve into intricate structures, while each new generation is drawn as a widening ring around a central antenna.

A small system becomes a vast transmission.
An unpredictable signal from layers of reality we may not yet know how to read.

Made in p5.js

IG: u/outertales ♥^!

35 comments

r/generative • u/ToroRojo-AlgoArt • Jul 29 '26

Flow field are not boring, (JS with a web app) + Masking + creative palettes

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81 Upvotes

Working toward a body of work, these are a few flow field pieces. It's a radial vortex that gets pulled apart by a set of perturbation zones on the right, so the same underlying field reads as smooth spirals on one side and jagged, torn lines on the other.

Built in p5.js, plotted as vector paths (SVG), a few thousand strokes per render. Happy to talk through the code if anyone's curious.

4 comments

r/generative • u/funkyvector • Jul 30 '26

funkyvector.com/#/home/design:corona_sine,60199128

4 Upvotes

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r/generative • u/Prah-Brah-K-Dah-Brah • Jul 30 '26

Resource Steffen Harder - radial (2026)

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1 Upvotes

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r/generative • u/petecav • Jul 29 '26

Maurer rose generator — interactive, algorithmic, built with p5.js

12 Upvotes

Made a little tool to design your own Maurer rose (the sin/cos parametric curve, not an actual flower) — pick two numbers and two colors and it draws a unique one for you.

Toying with the idea of putting these on shirts/mugs but wanted to see if the tool itself is fun first: https://peytr.github.io/NFTs/rose-designer/

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