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#46 Snowfro & Artblocks: The Generative Art Evolution

The Ledger Podcast

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What Is a Grasp?

The first examples of algorithmic art were actually just scientists demonstrating some really beautiful patterns in nature. You have people like Herbert Frank, from K in Germany early on working with with light and then later on, we went to the front, Vera Molnar and Manfred Moore with plotters. And so it's just insane to know that even when we didn't have the facility that we have now, there was this desire to create visual back then mainly just visual I don't know of any like audio examples in the time,. although I may just not be educated but you know something really interesting for a human to do is to make visual outputs using this dinosaur of a machine.

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