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Original sketches, sourced people. Founders, collaborators, and later contributors are labeled by role. Portrait sources are linked; new photographs and existing illustrated studies are identified separately.
Tool and institution searches follow checked links to a recipe’s contributors; they do not claim the recipe itself uses that tool or has institutional support.
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RESEARCH / CREDIT / CORRECTION
A familiar visual pattern can hide a long history of invention, collaboration, teaching, and shared tools. This index starts with a moving study, identifies its technique, and follows documented contributions back to people.
Recipe credits link to papers, artist accounts, and technical explanations. We distinguish an original method from a later artistic use or teaching contribution. Looking similar is a starting question, not evidence of influence.
Institutional records tell another part of the story: who held a residency, received support, or presented a work. Those relationships are kept separate from authorship.
Prototypes, workshops and unfinished work matter, even when their records are thin. Share an experiment or recollection ↗. Evidence levels describe a connection, never a person’s importance.
“To be assigned” means a person’s practice is documented, but their connection to a particular recipe still needs research. A source link lets readers inspect the claim and suggest a correction.
Know a missing collaborator, toolmaker, or teacher? Send a name, the contribution, and a source ↗
These public collections offer routes for extending the research. Their inclusion here does not mean every recipe has been checked against them.
Follow the Processing Foundation’s tools, teachers and creative-coding lineage. For the teaching history, Code as Creative Medium, by Golan Levin and Tega Brain, brings together creative-coding exercises, historical examples, and educator interviews.
Archive links are research resources, not project partners or endorsements. Original studies illustrate ideas; they are not reproductions of the credited artists’ works.
PEOPLE / CONTRIBUTIONS / SOURCES
Residencies are part of these artists’ histories. Each recipe credit below names a specific artistic, teaching, or toolmaking contribution; affiliation does not imply sponsorship of this site.
ABOUT / PROJECT CREATOR
Headshot hosted by The New School; photographer not identified on the source page.
I’m an artist, inventor and educator, and a graduate of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). I was a 2003 Eyebeam Project Resident.
I built this project to make the people inside computational patterns easier to find—and to invite others to help fill in the picture.
Biography & residency source ↗ · Project creator’s sourced affiliations ↗