Computational Expressionism #1

First in a who-knows-how-long series of what Joanna Berzowska has termed “Computational Expressionism“, where an artist programs a drawing tool and then uses it to create their own drawings.

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The applet itself is available by clicking below. If you grab the sourcecode and run it yourself using Processing, you can save pictures by pressing ’s’.

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Edit: One quick note in relation to the original Computational Expressionism work done by Berzowska. In her essays it sounds like she did all of her work using a mouse as input. My experience is that it’s much more interesting to play with this sort of thing using a tablet input device. (Although the first picture shown above was just done using the mouse, so it’s not a requirement.)