[akavel]

When I was a kid (in the 90s), one of the computer periodicals in Poland at the time had a column titled "Mikroprofesor", which run a lot of simple and beutiful algorithms for generative art like these. I loved the images and even tried coding some of them (I think they always came with some pseudocode). I wish there was some online archive of the articles, but unfortunately I couldn't find one (the magazine was named "Enter"; I can't recall the name of the column author however).

[emptybits]

Sounds interesting. FWIW, A search for "Magazyn Enter" (the publisher is Lupus?) at archive.org turns up a handful of downloadable cover CDs from 1999. I didn't see any references to Mikroprofesor in the one ISO I checked. Just FYI, if it helps anyone sleuth.

[fractallyte]

A.K. Dewdney's "Computer Recreations" column in Scientific American in the 1980s also had early examples of algorithmic art - I bet you'd have loved those!