Functional Image Synthesis

[Rexxar]

http://conal.net/papers/bridges2001/

[jmah]

If the images on http://conal.net/pan/ are any indication, we'd best stay away (and stick to Processing http://processing.org/).

[jamii → jmah]

I think the problem there is with Conals artistic skills, rather than his software. Pancito (http://www.acooke.org/pancito-code/index.html), which works more or less the same way as Pan, has some more compelling examples.

[petercooper → jmah]

Or Nodebox :) http://nodebox.net/