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The capacity of a system to produce new, unforeseen outputs from its own rules. It is the defining quality of generative art.
Originally, this all goes back to cybernetics, the study of feedback in a nonlinear system, which leads to deterministic but unpredictable events.
DEAFBEEF, DEAFBEEF on (Im)permanence
Generativity can also grant uniqueness to each pattern. Historically, textile designs were static and simply repeated over and over again on fabric. But with code, we can program infinite variations.
Emily Xie, Emily Xie on Textile as Personal Canvas