Description

Context Free is a simple programming language that allows the user to easily create abstract images. In a few seconds (after writing the code), a user can generate super rad art including fractals and other recursively themed images via their free, download-able desktop client.

Access

The program is free to download for Windows, Apple, and Linux users on their homepage Context Free Art.

Once you have the desktop client, go ahead and mess around with the code!

What the Tool Does Well

It's great at creating for coding, and rendering images based on your code.

What it Does Poorly

Application is not intuitive, fails to really show what each line of code does, horrible for teaching beginners.

Further Reading

Background info on context free grammar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-free_grammar

and recursion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion_%28computer_science%29

and fractals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractals

You can also pull some example code from the gallery to get started.

Check out the amazing work others have done and try some for yourself.

http://www.contextfreeart.org/gallery/