"The chaotic attractors are fascinating.. are there any chaotic attractor presets and associated movie brushes that ship with the program? I'd be interested when or if you might have them to post. Yes, it's exactly functionality like this…"

"You bring up an interesting point, what about paintings where the paint itself incorporates some procedural art element (like a chaotic attractor for example). So you might generate output that tries to reproduce a source image. So if you step…"

"You're touching on a lot of interesting ideas. I'll try to jot down a few quick responses here. And i'll try to put together some kind of forum or blog post that delves deeper into this topic soon. It doesn't matter if you write…"

"p.s. this anonymous comment, sort of works for me, helps me define what I'm seeing in certain usages of Studio Artist and the other programs mentioned: ..."I think “procedural” means that the tool is temporal, i.e. that the…"

"Thanks, this clarifies, although I have a follow up question or two and if you don't mind will use some of your text so it's clearer what I'm asking about. I realize as you say we're talking about opinions and not textbook…"

"Interesting. I never would have thought the symbol image you just posted was using a text brush. Do you have some kind of background texture modulation going on via Brush Modulation or paint Fill Setup control panels? It looks like a stylized…"

"Another idea : if you don't like letters, you can only use symbols like +,;-/%&'() etc, and this gives a handpainting style like this : "

"What i'm doing to generate this particular image is to spatially modulate between 2 different abstract procedural images. So i built a MSG preset that generates one color abstract image in the R Out, G Out, B Out image channels. And a second…"