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November 30, 2008

Scriptographer - Javascript for Illustrator

Scriptographer is an amazing tool I've been playing with recently which gives you the ability to run javascript within Illustrator. What this allows you to do is write little scripts which will then generate illustrations either procedurally or in real-time with user input. There are a bunch already available on the Scriptographer website which show the pretty wide range of applications. I'm particularly intrigued by the tile maker script, which allows you to create interesting patterns which you then can paint with in real time. Here's an experiment I created today with a Spirograph script. The background is from a scanned watercolor illustration I made when I was in Kindergarten. I really think a tool like this pushes the envelope of what is typical these days and I look forward to posting more of my experiments soon.

Posted by dsr at November 30, 2008 09:33 PM