Further building out this generative art piece with Grok 3. Zero errors still, and zero coding. I added red threads, a radial mode, and added stickiness to the threads. Now it’s starting to take on organic shapes like cobwebs and tissue. It almost feels like a life form.

The key to make this work with a no code approach is to avoid manually editing the code. Always ask Grok to make the edits you want. This is how I came up with the radial mode.

In one shot Grok 3 got my edit correctly after pasting the code into @Replit iOS.

Though the last prompt was a little long, that’s just the way I like describing things. But it doesn’t have to be long at all, Grok can figure things out when you turn on Think mode.

When I added thread stickiness the app started running slowly. That’s when Grok showed 2 suggestion buttons at the bottom to optimize performance it was literally a 3 word prompt. “spatial partitioning techniques” and it just worked in one shot.

To make art inspired by nature like this, you don’t really need to a developer. But you do need to describe your observations of the real world as succinct as you can. How can you describe the way that a tree branches with words?

It looks like it splits into two with a rotation that looks like 30 degrees. Then its children split into two, and again and again. There’s a word for this, it’s called recursion or fractals. Knowing the right words will go a long way.

This is what architect Frei Ottoman did with his wool experiments. He observed the way wet wool threads simulated natural processes of self organization which helped him design efficient structures. Like the Munich Olympic Stadium roof.

Frei’s work served as inspiration for this gen art piece. Knowing how to describe what’s in your mind through words to paint a clear picture will be key in the age of AI. Natural language will be the tool you can use to create what you want.

That concludes the thread. Go see the original post, i go over how I made it with Grok 3 from an iPhone. And how it can be applied to large scale art installations.

Sick af