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Yes, sometimes.

In another talk Bret claims that you basically cannot do visual art/design without immediate feedback. I was wondering how he thought people that create metal sculptures via welding, or carve marble, possibly work. It's just trivially wrong to assert you need that immediate feeback, and calls all of the reasoning into question.



Good point. I think programmers would be better off dropping the artistic pretensions altogether and accepting that they are much closer to engineers and architects in their construction of digital sandcastles.


and some artists create amazing art coding it in Processing; just take a look at Casey Reas's works.

also Beethoven wrote down his complex music quite often w/o using the instrument as he heard it in his mind...




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