Processing Foundation

How to bridge the gap between simple shapes and complex generative systems? In this tutorial, explores the core principles of building organic, expressive sketches.

She breaks down the difference between random and noise, dives into coordinate transformations, and experimented with the updated color modes in the latest version of p5.js. If you’re looking to move beyond static drawings and start designing flexible, living systems, this tutorial provides a clear roadmap for your practice.

This tutorial is part of our ongoing series in partnership with the Tezos Foundation, exploring how to create with p5.js 2.0+.

🔗 Check it out and start exploring with the example sketch – link in bio.

Mexico City was built on five lakes. Today, most traces of them have disappeared.

In ‘Where Has the Lake Gone?’, artist Leonardo Aranda investigates the hidden hydrological history of the city. Using a bicycle disguised as a tamale cart, Leonardo traveled through neighborhoods scanning the ground with a custom radar sensor, searching for remnants of buried waterways.

The collected data became a 3D map built in Processing, revealing fragments of the lake system still embedded in the city’s infrastructure: curved streets, too-high staircases, and underground channels.

The project asks how we might reconnect with a landscape that urban development has largely erased.

Learn more about the project: https://medium.com//where-has-the-lake-gone-df42cb148874
(also 🔗 in bio)

What really shapes a bézier curve? In this tutorial, Licia He takes a closer look.

She unpacks the math behind how bézier curves work as parametric systems, demonstrates three distinct ways to construct them, and shares her personal approach to defining control points. If you’re working with bézier curves in p5.js, this tutorial will give you a clearer mental model of how they behave.
This tutorial is part of our ongoing series exploring how to build with p5.js 2.0+.

🔗 Check it out and start exploring with the example sketch — link in bio.

📣 p5.js 2.0+ Artist Series Drop #1: Featuring Licia He

Licia He is a generative artist dedicated to creating artistic expressions through technological innovations. Through her research and artworks, she explores ways to record and present information around her.

In this release, Licia explores Bézier curves in p5.js 2.0+ through her project ‘DearPlotter Font Generator’: a generative stroke font-making algorithm designed for pen plotters, CNC users, and creative coders.

In the tutorial, Licia breaks down what a Bézier curve is, how parametric curves work, and demonstrates three different ways to construct Bézier curves, including a native-p5.js 2.0+ approach. Alongside the tutorial, she releases ‘DearPlotter Font Generator’ on EditArt created as a thank-you letter to the creative coding, pen plotter, and creative fabrication communities that inspire her work.

🔗 Check out her tutorial and view her release on EditArt – link in bio.

Produced in partnership with the Tezos Foundation and EditArt, a generative art platform on .