What coding projects are used to create art and beauty?

Question

Today the blinkenlights stereoscope project starts as part of the nuit blanche art event in Toronto. The Toronto city hall is transferred into a giant matrix display. There are tools to create custom animations and an iphone application to view the live stream.

I think this is a great example of using technology for art and beauty. What other coding/programming projects are out there for the sake of art and beauty?

Update: Youtube Video of blinkenlights in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTZosieGhIQ

Answer 1

There's a ton of art projects involving technology / code over at processing.org

Answer 2

I've tinkered with http://processing.org here and there over the last few years. Along similar lines, there's the Context Free project, at http://www.contextfreeart.org

The idea behind Context Free is very cool. Rather than directly placing graphic elements, using imperative semantics, you define a grammar that declaratively defines the relationship of graphic elements. The runtime system generates an image by walking the grammar and instantiating elements that conform with its rules.

Fun stuff.