Comment by abetusk
I've also made a space invader generator.
live version: https://abetusk.github.io/iao/vadfad_1gen/
source: https://github.com/abetusk/iao/tree/main/vadfad_1gen
Inspired by Jared Tarbell (linked from another comment here from levitated.net).
I found it surprisingly easy to get good results. The major components are the eyes, bilateral symmetry and otherwise random pixels within a small rectangle, if I remember correctly.
> Inspired by Jared Tarbell
Such a huge part of my early dabbling with computers. A jewel of the early internet, along with the later http://complexification.net, though sadly most of the examples don't run any more due to both Flash (Levitated) and Java (Complexification) dying off.
At least for Complexification, you can copy-paste the Processing .pde source to https://hello.processing.org/editor/#editor and see it run.