I decided to take a break from genuary because I felt it was becoming too much of a chore and I wasn’t really enjoying myself. It started to feel like work as opposed to play. So here’s something I’ve wanted to try out for a while - it’s a pixelated version of a photo I took in Snowdonia last year, which I am totally obsessed with, I think it’s possibly one of the best photos I will ever take.
Here’s small glimpse at a program I’ve been working on. I recently added the coloured circles around the edge to strike a contrast from the flowing structure of the inner lines. For me, I think the circles represent opportunities one might come across or discover in one’s life.
I wanted to explore a little more with the idea of combining Perlin with Bezier to create polygons in motion. This time I wanted something more playful and animated so this piece is animated according to cursor position. The stills below were taken almost randomly because pressing the save key combination also updated the seed.
Last weekend I got the opportunity to take part in a digital art event where generative artists across London and elsewhere came together to experience an exhibition, have conversations and watch some talks. It was amazing. It was held in a cool place in Peckham, called Peckham Levels.
One of my entries for “genuary”. Each day has a different prompt. This is the entry for the 2nd: “rule 30”.
After yesterday I fancied working a bit more on exploring some creative coding. This time I wanted to see if I could replicate something that I’ve seen done by one of my favourite generative artists, @dmitricherniak. "Self-portrait 👁👄👁 “My work-in-progress after an evening can be seen below.
It’s been a while since I generated stuff so I decided to spend an evening making something with circles. This turned out to be an interesting way to generate what I think look like digital insects with circle wings. To introduce variability, the mouse coords affect the size of the average insect and the likelihood of an insect spawning vs.
I’ve been experimenting with a similar technique to my previous post that adds variance of colour. The outline of each circle appears to resemble shadow on a matte surface, creating a pebble-like effect. Subtle colours produce pebble-like volumes, whereas vibrant colours seem to give the volume an unsettling-but-comforting almost florescent appearance, resembling the coat of some kind of insect.
I have returned to drawing circles, but this time animating them in a loop over a short time period. To begin with I modulated just the positions of the circles, but then began modulating the diameter over time as well.
Sometimes I like making generative art with p5. I started getting more into generative art last winter but haven’t done so much recently. The other evening I decided to try to procedurally generate voronoi diagrams but I gave up after discovering this technique of drawing with animated circles.
