PROMPTS

JAN. 1. (credit: Stranger in the Q)

Vertical or horizontal lines only.

JAN. 2. (credit: Monokai)

Layers upon layers upon layers.

JAN. 3. (credit: Roni Kaufman)

Exactly 42 lines of code.

JAN. 4. (credit: Stranger in the Q)

Black on black.

JAN. 5. (credit: P1xelboy)

Isometric Art - (No vanishing points).

JAN. 6. (credit: Jonathan Barbeau)

Make a landscape using only primitive shapes.

JAN. 7. (credit: Camille Roux)

Use software that is not intended to create art or images.

JAN. 8. (credit: Piter Pasma)

Draw one million of something.

JAN. 9. (credit: Piter Pasma)

The textile design patterns of public transport seating.

JAN. 10. (credit: Darien Brito)

You can only use TAU in your code, no other number allowed.

TAU = 2 * pi = 6.2831853…

JAN. 11. (credit: Rachel Ehrlich (Joy of Randomness) and the Recurse Center)

Impossible day - Try to do something that feels impossible for you to do. Maybe it is impossible. Maybe it’s too ambitious. Maybe it’s something you know nothing about how to accomplish.

JAN. 12. (credit: Melissa Wiederrecht)

Subdivision.

JAN. 13. (credit: Heeey)

Triangles and nothing else.

JAN. 14. (credit: Melissa Wiederrecht)

Pure black and white. No gray.

JAN. 15. (credit: Melissa Wiederrecht)

Design a rug.

JAN. 16. (credit: Stranger in the Q)

Generative palette.

JAN. 17. (credit: Roni Kaufman)

What happens if pi=4?

JAN. 18. (credit: Melissa Wiederrecht)

What does wind look like?

JAN. 19. (credit: Melissa Wiederrecht)

Op Art.

JAN. 20. (credit: Melissa Wiederrecht)

Generative Architecture.

JAN. 21. (credit: Darien Brito)

Create a collision detection system (no libraries allowed).

JAN. 22. (credit: Melissa Wiederrecht)

Gradients only.

JAN. 23. (credit: Melissa Wiederrecht, Roni Kaufman)

Inspired by brutalism.

JAN. 24. (credit: Bruce Holmer)

Geometric art - pick either a circle, rectangle, or triangle and use only that geometric shape.

JAN. 25. (credit: Bruce Holmer, Chris Barber (code_rgb), Heeey, Monokai)

One line that may or may not intersect itself

JAN. 26. (credit: Melissa Wiederrecht)

Symmetry.

JAN. 27. (credit: Melissa Wiederrecht)

Make something interesting with no randomness or noise or trig.

JAN. 28. (credit: Sophia (fractal kitty))

Infinite Scroll.

JAN. 29. (credit: Melissa Wiederrecht)

Grid-based graphic design.

JAN. 30. (credit: Melissa Wiederrecht)

Abstract map.

Not to be confused with AbstractMap.

JAN. 31. (credit: Melissa Wiederrecht)

Pixel sorting.

You can sort pixels by weight, size, age, etc.

THANKS

Big thanks goes out to all these people for contributing to GENUARY and generally being awesome.

2024 PROMPTS

Looking for the 2024 prompts? They’re at 2024/prompts.