Craig S. Kaplan on Nostr: January 25: Organic Geometry. Forms that look or act organic but are constructed ...

January 25: Organic Geometry. Forms that look or act organic but are constructed entirely from geometric shapes.

As a fun riff on the prompt, I wrote a sketch that draws generative organic molecules. There were definitely some interesting subtleties involved here in getting things to look vaguely OK. There's still a lot of tweaking I could do (generative chemical names would be awesome), but it's bedtime.

Obviously these aren't even remotely plausible. In my defense, through a quirk of the educational systems of Québec and Ontario in the late 1980s, I never took an organic chemistry course, so I know very little about the subject, and must operate purely on vibes here.

Source code at https://editor.p5js.org/isohedral/full/VTlFRldEP. #genuary #genuary2026