Tue Jun 30, 2015
This is a semi-automated backup of my old Tumblr account.
Ghosts
06/30/2015
schoolofmaaa{.tumblr_blog}:
Last week’s dinner. Lines were traced following brightness similarity (start at a random position, look around for the closest brightness, draw a line there, repeat). Some hair styles can beat the most advanced anonymization processes :P
by aBe
Yes, I’m teaching at the School of Machines, Making and Make Believe again. It would be hard to find a better job :)
We
06/28/2015
A grid distorted using Perlin noise, drawn 3 times slightly modified, first red, then green, then blue. When the three colors overlap, blendMode(ADD) combines the colors into white. A hidden PGraphics with the word “we” is sampled to influence the brightness of the grid lines.
“we” because I think we should think more about “we”, and less about “I”.
Branching and depth
06/27/2015
Each time I click, the background is blurred one pixel, covered with low opacity orange, and a recursive function is called with the mouse coordinates as arguments. The recursive function draws a line and often calls itself twice, adding one new line at each end. The lengths of the new lines are between half and the full length of the original line, so each new iteration draws shorter (and whiter) lines than the parent. The process stops after 15 iterations, or when it gets too far from the center (to avoid touching the edges).
50 lines of Processing code.
Is it a fractal? I think it depends on the definition of “fractal”. I think I could modify the program to allow a continuous, never ending zoom-in, that would reveal the same structures no matter how far we travel into the structure. That would sound more “fractal-like” to me than the current version.
Tree self defense
06/22/2015
If only trees could defend themselves from humans… or at least dance.
Growth
06/19/2015
Circle pentagon rectangle triangle loop
06/14/2015
Circles mapped through Perlin noise
06/11/2015
Perlin noise from a different perspective
06/09/2015
Two animation frames showing Perlin Noise getting naked.
Grid of combinations
06/09/2015
8 columns, 8 rows, 4 radii, 4 angles, 4 colors, 4 repetitions
What programs do you use to create your gifs? What about your symmetry art?
06/07/2015
Hi! Except for two or three exceptions, all images were generated by programs I wrote using Processing (processing.org), including the symmetric images. In case of animated gifs I use gifsicle on the command line to glue together all the animation frames in one gif file.
Basically, I first have an idea or experiment I want to try, I write the idea as source code, I run the program, observe the resulting image or animation, then I change and run the program many times until I’m happy with the result, and finally I share it here.
I record video tutorials that can get you started: http://funprogramming.org There’s more learning resources at http://p5art.tumblr.com/tutorials
Stellar rush hour
06/06/2015
electroBouncyEllipsoRect
06/06/2015
Based on my last sketch, which was based on Jerome’s, which was based on Patakk’s, etc :)
Note: edited. I made the flash transition faster.
bouncyEllipsoRect
06/05/2015
original code by Jerome (check his site!). I only made it bounce a little :)
(source)
Grid of combinations
06/04/2015
8 columns, 8 rows, 4 widths, 4 heights, 4 colors, 4 repetitions