London Creative Coding - Christmas special 2021!! 🥳 🎄 🎅

Hey everyone!!!

Yes, we have just about managed to squeeze another one in before the year is over, and what a night we have in store.

As usual we have 3 great speakers, not to mention a nice new venue! And of course we will be getting extra merry in the pub afterwards 🥂

What with the latest Covid stuff going on, we will be taking extra precautions to ensure everyone feels safe whilst at the meetup. We will be paying close attention to the news over the next week or so and will advise you all nearer the time of the plan.

In no particular order we have:

## How to draw a perfect line by Steve Ruiz

Steve will share the story of the perfect-freehand, a JavaScript library for drawing perfect, pressure-sensitive freehand lines. It's a tale of twists, turns, bugs, and globs; and maybe some insight into the highs and lows of chasing perfection in software.

Steve Ruiz is a designer and developer in London with a background in contemporary art. He builds and writes about creative software. His recent projects include the experimental vector tool "globs.design', digital ink library 'perfect-freehand', and a tiny little drawing app named 'TLDraw'.

## Phase - generative data art piece by Seph Li

The creative development process that brings scientific hypothesis and Chinese philosophy into generative art piece. A few key technical points will also be covered.

Born in 1988 in Beijing, China, Seph holds bachelor degrees in both Compute Science and Digital Design from Tsinghua University. After obtaining his M.F.A. in Design | Media Arts department, School of Art & Architecture from UCLAs in the United States in 2012, he has traveled and worked around Asia and Europe. He has then lived in Tokyo, Barcelona, Shanghai, Amsterdam and London. During his time in
Tokyo, he has been working with famous art collective teamLab and led its interactive team for several major installations that still on tour in 2021. Seph's works have been exhibited internationally in many major media arts festivals.

## Unusual drawing tools by Grégoire Divaret-Chauveau

This year Grégoire released Mutsuacen, a drawing application where each stroke is animated or interactive. It allows you to instantly paint lively images, even if you don't know how to draw.

Before that he's worked on several projects and experiments that explore new ways to draw with computers.

During this talk he'd like to present the creative and technical aspects of these projects.

Grégoire lives in Nancy, France, where he makes visual experiments with code. He's passionate about code, art and mathematics.

As a freelance developer Grégoire works on immersive websites and data visualizations.

## The pub!