I started playing with my Forge engine again recently, using some shapes I had plugged into it over a year ago. I had mentioned it before, but Forge is a simple Flash application I developed about 3 years ago to help me generate random assortments of shapes and patterns. As simple and clunky as the program is, Forge has helped me create quite a lot of useful vector assets I use in a lot of my art.
I want to start using more of it’s organic tendancies in my work, and give the program a bit more freedom to do what it wants. The piece above is just a sketch of it’s capabilities, with effects and colors added in Photoshop.
I love it! can you recommend a place that I could find out more about the Forge engine?
Second that. Is Forge publicly available?
As James said:
“my Forge engine” and “Forge is a simple Flash application I developed about 3 years ago”
Looks like it is not public, or?
Forge is something I built on my own to help me create random shape combinations. It’s very simple and quite cantankerous, I’m surprised smoke doesn’t pour from my CPU when I run it :) I heard it crashes on Macs quite often.
But no, it isn’t really available anywhere online yet. If I ever manage to tame the code to have it run a bit smoother perhaps I will post an example here for you guys to have a look at.
Thanks for the response! To all reading still, here are some similar resources (after brief research), I am sure you could find more):
Visualization Processing Language:
http://processing.org/
SPRAY Shape/Vector Generator (Just copy to clipboard into illustrator- works amazing!)
http://tinyurl.com/5dnoc5
Thanks for the links, Benjamin! I’ve done brief research into Processing, and Spray looks very interesting. Definitely worth looking into, thanks man.