OKAPI

Digital, Generative art in HTML5

Okapi is an open-source framework for building digital, generative art in HTML5. Joshua Davis Studios and Mix Online are collaborating to provide you an easy way to either build your own generative art with Okapi or simply create a piece of art at Endless Mural that was commissioned by Microsoft for the IE9 Launch.

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Designers: Okapi allows you to create digital, generative art based on HTML5's Canvas that can be used in any compatible browser.

Developers: You can download Okapi's source since it is open source and add your own creative functionality.

Enthusiasts: You can use Okapi at Endless Mural to create your own art and enter our contest without having to know any code!

WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH OKAPI?

WRITINGS

Introducing the Okapi Framework

by Thomas Lewis

Thomas gives a quick introduction to the Okapi Framework, how it came to be, and why MIX Online decided to collaborate with Joshua Davis Studios.

Virtual Paintbrushes and Short Necked Giraffes

by Branden Hall

Branden explains how art and science are not always mutually explosive as well as details how we have gone from simple tools for art to using a canvas that is world-wide.

Joshua Davis explains the Endless Mural project which was created with the Okapi framework.

NYC digital artist Joshua Davis gives a demonstration of his new collaborative online art project - the Endless Mural. Davis unveiled the mural at a San Francisco event celebrating web developers and designers prior to the launch of the Internet Explorer 9 beta. He explains how as a developer, designer and artist, he is excited about how he can now do things with technology and computing that surpasses what can be done by hand with just the browser sans plug-ins.

OKAPI

Digital, Generative art in HTML5

About Okapi

JOIN IN THE FUN!

FAQ

Create your own art with Okapi and Endless Mural to win great prizes.

The Contest

Build the most brutally awesome art piece at Endless Mural as soon as possible (before December 15th). Joshua Davis and MIX Online will pick the two top art pieces and will award them fabulous prizes. We will be judging on aesthetic, excitement (are you sharing the contest with your friends perhaps?), being cool and pure brutality. We will not accept more than 2 submissions.

How To Participate

Follow @mixonline on Twitter.
Go to Endless Mural and Start Drawing with an HTML5-based browser, we of course prefer IE9 beta.
Save your drawing.
Tweet the following (you can do this within) Endless Mural:

Hey @mixonline, I posted (title of your art piece) for the Okapi contest (http://bit.ly/okapijs) at Endless Mural: (put link to your art piece).

How To Win

On December 15th, Joshua Davis and the MIX Online crew will convene at an undisclosed skate park in Norway in the dead of night and pick two winners for the first and second prize. Those winners will be notified via Twitter and prizes will be on their way.