2,4,5: no(t yet). But you could call external libraries that specialize in these kind of stuff very easily.

Well, it can do it as well with arbitrary regions or graphics.

Hi Ivano,

First, by particles, did you have something like this in mind?

Simulate Thousands of Particles in Real Time

Second, that is quite an ambitious list of things to accomplish from the perspective of art ( or anything else for that matter ). Let me followup with another question/suggestion: what of that list do you have as your most immediate interest? If you had to give a friend an example of your art within a short amount of time, what would it be?

Additionally, since generative art seems to be developing as a hot topic, have you looked at systems such as Processing? As I mentioned before, its likely that you will leverage several tools. A friend of mine who is an artist swears by Processing, Mathematica, and Fortran (Fortran still seems to be the King of scientific computing for some reason) You can use Mathematica for 'Heavy Lifting' and Processing for its Artist friendly focus. Plus, with the cloud, if not already, there shall be some way to integrate the two very tightly.

There is a lot that shows up Mathematica related sites that can be considered Art. Take a look at the HairyStarFish post (just search for it). Merely altering the order of operations a bit to (2/3)^k)^t ends up creating a 'Baboon in a Balloon'. Ink blot tests are always fun.

Good Luck!

Just for the record, here is the final answer to my questions:

1) Can it do ASCII-Art (no), OCR (yes), Trace (no)?

2) Can a 2D surface be extruded? (no)

3) Can it add 3D modifyers? (like twist, taper, bend, etc) (no)

4) Can it cut and join audio? (no)

5) Can it do speech recognition? (no)

6) Can it render a MIDI file to a sound file? (no)

7) Can it be used with a MIDI controller? (no)

8) Can it mux or demux video? (no)

9) Can it embed subtitles? (no)

All the other questions answered yes, you can see the full list at http://bisentertainment.altervista.org/great-project.html

In truth I found answers in the documentation, I guessed no to some questions because I found nothing. By the way, do you know if is it possible to do boolean operations with graphics? (like intersect, join, substract, etc).

Thanks a lot for your help. I guess we can close the thread.

Yes, it was graphicsgroup. Thanks.

Dear Dave, thanks for having the time to write this.

I would like to use mathematica for generative art in image processing, vector graphics, 3d modeling, audio processing and video editing.

I'm sorry I didn't be clear, I hope this will clean things up.

Just to know, I searched the documentation for particles, but I found nothing. Can mathematica simulate particle systems?

I guess the most interesting field for me is music. But I don't undertake others.

I already tryed Processing, but I think it's poor for art generation, and the addons are not always cross platform.

In fact I'm using Wolfram cloud on Linux.

As for your last sentence, the questions are grouped by software. What do you suggest me to do in order to sort them?

Thanks in advance.

Bye, Ivano.

P.S.: Edit: I indeed found the link you're posted.