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by toxmeister 2022 days ago
Maybe I mentioned Compdes a bit too often... /shrug

From this comment and others it seems maybe not many people are familiar with the meaning of the term: Design through/by computational means, incl. procedural, generative, evolutionary approaches...

Having said this, these libraries are closer to general purpose computing, but there's somewhat of a bias in terms of topics and data structures towards geometry, graphics, data transformations, visualization etc.

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If you talked about creative computing[0] I would have understood earlier. Or made comparisons with Processing or SuperCollider.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_computing

Creative computing is just a subset of computational design though and wouldn't have sufficed... also see my answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25263818
Yes, it's a subset, but you should nonetheless talk about creative computing in the landing page. And also about other stuff!