My early college career, and it was a career let me tell you, was focused mostly on mathematics, with a dash of physics and astronomy. Now as a Flash developer I’ve started getting back to my roots and enjoying Generative Art. I guess my first foray might be my Lightning project. You judge for yourself. Hopefully soon I’ll have more time to devote to this subject. Right now I think it’s 3rd or 4th on the list of projects to work on.

Here’s a few resources and examples:

once-upon-a-forest.com: work by Joshua Davis, I think.

AlgorithmicBotany.org: Lots and lots of technical papers on the subject from the University of Calgary.

New York Times has a nice writeup about the current research being done with insect swarms.