Genuary 2026 Art

31 generative artworks I created for Genuary 2026. Click any piece to view it live.

About

Genuary is a month-long generative art challenge that takes place each year in January. You can learn more about Genuary at genuary.art. All of the pieces are also available at dylan-eck.github.io/genuary-2026.

Built with

• p5.js for drawing, animation, and input in most pieces
• Custom GLSL shaders for the GPU-heavy pieces (9 of the 31), including raymarching (07), cellular automata (09, 27), and a multi-pass bloom pipeline (20)
• culori for OKLCH palettes and color interpolation
• p5.js-svg for vector output (22, 30)
• Plain HTML/CSS with no canvas for day 28
• Hosted on GitHub Pages. There is no build step, and libraries load from CDNs.

Dev tooling: Prettier for formatting, and Playwright scripts in tools/ that capture the preview images and README thumbnails.

Running locally

You can run this repository locally using python. After cloning, run the following command at the root of the repository:

python -m http.server 8000 --directory src

Then open a browser window and navigate to http://localhost:8000/

License

Copyright (c) 2026 Dylan Eck.

• Code is licensed under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0. You may use, modify, and share it, including running the sketches, only for non-commercial purposes.
• Artwork (images, videos, and other visual output from the sketches) is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.

For commercial use of either, please get in touch.

Third-party

• src/lib/OpenSimplexNoise.js is adapted from joshforisha/open-simplex-noise-js and is in the public domain under the Unlicense.
• The Google Sans Code font in src/11/assets/fonts/ is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
• p5.js, p5.js-svg, and culori are loaded from CDNs under their own licenses.