Generative Art - Creating Solar Systems With Python Programming

A much longer video tutorial on how to generate simple solar systems with Python 2.7. Generative art is a cool way to use programming artistically and this is a great project to start with. I've listed some resources below that you will need as well as a repository with the finished script.

Thank you so much for watching!

[rdius]

This was great! Just that I actually couldn't visualise what's going on. It would be helpful if you would've ran the code once in a while to see the progress. Other than that, this video is a gem!

[FefeldGaming]

Amazing! Please continue these videos they are great, and really make me want to get into this kind of programming. Python is truly powerful ! Great job, keep it up!

[JaaayLovesCookiezZ]

Hey TheBuffED,


I would like to thank you very much for that tutorial.
It helped me so much and was nice explained.
I'm currently working on a picture with randomly generated triangles that start big and near to each other and then keep getting smaller and less till there is only background.
Just don't worry to much in your videos about the length and everything, you are doing very good!



Keep on going!


Best regards,
J

[fededi]

Thank you! My First program on generative art. I appreciate!

[niemandwars]

I love your generator and look forward on the moons and asteroid belts :D

[goid]

It also works on python 3+ with only 1 change - xrange -> range in one line, lol. Thank you man for this vid and code!

[knightfromjupiter]

Very cool tutorial, i'm following you to try and make a to scale png of the solar system, well done!

[AllAboutCode]

Can you please make more videos using pycairo your work is amazing

[MarinusMakesStuff]

Are you using Atom or Visual Studio Code to program?

[RottenMechGaming]

looks fantastic. Do you think it could be customised to generate systems that include some basic measurements and rules for the habitable zone in a solar system? I was thinking it would be great to be able to custom name planets and the sun and also use some ratios to indicate the sweet spot fo habitable planets + distances. Great work!

[alskoy]

Hi! What is your background, it looks cool

[tahsintariq]

Is there a way to make a similar noise texture in processing?

[badoli]

Cairo... Interesting! I heard of this lib, but never really knew what it was for. Guess i'll gotta check that out.

Edit: Dang, can't get it to get working on Windows. Pip fails on installing due to some issue with visual c++ linker.

[MarinusMakesStuff]

I wish I could get Pycairo installed... My Mac Os installation just won't accept my Pycairo..

[gebencsik]

very great tutorial !
but it would be nice or more usefull, if you complie after every important steps, not just in the end