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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.

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’.

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.)

Playing with generating spirals and curves from lines. (Trigonometry is a good thing.) Also practicing using a more selective palette instead of a continuous spectrum.

So I had a website up on space assigned to our class, but it got taken down (silly UCFV). Sometime soon I’d like to incorporate the better of my work for that class into my portfolio page here, but for the time being I’ve uploaded the old site onto here in its entirety.

You can find it here.

More fun with nextGaussian(), and a bunch of alpha goodness.

Linking to a separate page because Wordpress doesn’t seem happy with letting me embed applets in an entry (the post editing page gets all buggy, or just crashes).