Great to see a movement arising where art/tech starts to hopefully grow closer together with a new generation of generative artists. Reading Isaacsons Da Vinci biography. Even in his time there was a bit of a split between science and art, but also a lot of collaboration in the science of anatomy. In our time I think we still need more merging of art with computer science, complexity science etc!
But really, it's more of a 'well most of the time it's 2π' so maybe it makes sense to use the constant that represents that number, and since we're talking about small details, '2.0*PI' is also longer than 'TAU' to type.
Yes, there's always people doing things differently, with different targets, and amazing results. I don't think it matters when it comes to the 'for real' factor of the practice though.
I could say that I've been doing daily animations for the past 1580 days, and that's definitely real in my book. Your call.
completely different take on generative art, did you look at any of the examples in the interview or read it? It's not a contest around tech, its a conversation around tools and using them to express yourself
Quick plug of my own generative work: https://hyperobjects.design/gallery
Click through to the individual artwork pages for links to access the source code for every work and run it directly in the browser.