{"id":576,"date":"2006-08-05T14:15:44","date_gmt":"2006-08-05T22:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/05\/dna-art\/"},"modified":"2006-08-05T14:37:20","modified_gmt":"2006-08-05T22:37:20","slug":"dna-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/05\/dna-art\/","title":{"rendered":"DNA Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2000\/2001, I had an idea for my MFA thesis &#8212; to programmatically generate art through DNA, genetics or something of that sort. But of course, back then, I didn&#8217;t have the technical know-how, the connections nor the time to follow it through.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, there&#8217;s been a few companies built around this idea: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dna11.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">DNA 11<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaartistry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">DNA Artistry<\/a>&#8230; among others. And then there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jhlabs.com\/java\/art.html\" target=\"_blank\">Genetic Art<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/kandid.sourceforge.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kandid<\/a> and other genetic-related art projects. But I haven&#8217;t really seen one that generates an image based on an URL. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baekdal.com\/web2dna\/\" target=\"_blank\">Web2DNA<\/a> is the first one that converts a website into &#8220;dna art&#8221;&#8230; Neat stuff.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/dna_art.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"DNA Art of wiredatom.com\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I sometimes I wish I can be just like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motomichi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Moto<\/a> to do art for a living (not just any art, digital fine art!). But at least someday when he&#8217;s really famous, I&#8217;ll be able to tell everyone that I am good friends with Motomichi! Hmm&#8230; Maybe I should start buying up his &#8220;limited edition&#8221; prints while he&#8217;s still relatively an underground hit (for now).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2000\/2001, I had an idea for my MFA thesis &#8212; to programmatically generate art through DNA, genetics or something of that sort. But of course, back then, I didn&#8217;t have the technical know-how, the connections nor the time to follow it through. Over the years, there&#8217;s been a few companies built around this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/05\/dna-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DNA Art&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-9i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}