generative art you can breed

generative art is art grown by a system, from code and rules and a little controlled chance, instead of drawn by hand. gaogao takes that somewhere softer: every piece is a living organism grown from a genome, and you can breed two you love into something new.

what is generative art?

you design a process and let it run, with just enough randomness that no two results come out the same. voronoi cells, flow fields, little cellular worlds. the art isn't one fixed picture so much as a whole space of them, waiting to be found.

how gaogao is different: it has genetics

most generative art tools hand you a seed and a few sliders. gaogao hands you genetics. every piece is an organism grown from a diploid genome, genes with dominance, just like biology. so you can:

• grow a new one, always unique, and every organism is a link that's yours.
• keep the ones you love in a collection that follows you across devices.
• breed two of them, and watch the offspring inherit a mix of both, some traits dominant, some hidden. never simply the sum of their parents.
• watch it form, gene by gene, from nothing to the finished piece.

because each organism is a pure function of its genome, a shared link grows the exact same artwork on any device, forever. a little permanent gallery piece.

for generative artists

if you already make generative art, gaogao is a different grammar to play in: you explore by choosing and breeding instead of tuning parameters, cultivating a lineage the way you'd tend a little garden. it lives in the browser, needs no install, and is free for noncommercial use.

common questions

can you breed generative art?
yes. cross two organisms you've kept and the offspring inherit a mix of both, some traits dominant, some hidden. gaogao is the only generative art tool built around breeding.

what is genetic generative art?
generative art whose pieces are grown from a genome, genes with dominance, so they can be recombined and bred like living things. that's gaogao.

can I share it as a link?
every organism is a link that grows the exact same artwork on any device, forever.