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Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Creating art & visualizations with Go

Feb 27, 2024
Discussion on creating art & visualizations with Go, using tools like SVGGo. Exploring minimalistic data visualizations inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois. Community projects combat racism through visualizations. Automating interactions with LLMs using Go. AI in art, emphasizing preserving human input. Exploring Linux distributions and Mac systems.
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  • Combining art & code using Go sparked by blending design & coding conferences.
  • Creating diverse visual representations by simplifying complex visuals to fundamental elements in Go.

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Combining Art and Code: The Origin Story of Using Go in Visualizations

The journey of combining art and code using Go began when the speaker attended a conference focusing on blending design and coding. Witnessing the synergy between the two domains sparked their interest in merging art and code. As an IT professional, creating charts and graphs, the speaker realized the power of using code for visualizations. With the introduction of Go in 2009, the speaker embraced its programming language, finding it suitable due to past experience with C. Experimenting with SVG generation in Go led to further exploration.

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