A couple of books I enjoyed for inspiration many years ago were Generative Design: Visualize, Program, and Create with Processing by Benedikt Gross et al, and Form+Code by Casey Reas. Not sure how they’ve aged but the former was a nice tutorial type book and the latter a great overview of the scene.
But really you can’t beat downloading Processing or p5.js and whatever and just start playing around, I always found it quite fun as you didn’t really need to worry too much about code structure etc, instead just bang out a few hundred lines in a single file which create a cool end result!
But really you can’t beat downloading Processing or p5.js and whatever and just start playing around, I always found it quite fun as you didn’t really need to worry too much about code structure etc, instead just bang out a few hundred lines in a single file which create a cool end result!