Fantastical Creatures
I’ve finally revisited the generative art code I was playing with back in February. The painting system I worked out then is still all set up and sound, so it was really just a case of tweaking the various values in the algorithms and changing when and how subtly each part of the system kicks in.
All along I was wanting to aim for something more organic and painterly than the somewhat spiky results I got before. I don’t want people to realise immediately that what they’re looking at is flash-based generative art, if that’s at all possible. I mean all it should really take is careful refinement and experimentation, right? Lots of time, in other words.
So here are 4 finished pieces from last night’s tweaking:
Moth
See it? Flying to the right, with eyes, mouth, antennae and massive hairy bit in the middle, leading back to blurred wings, with legs hanging below and a long yellow body. Pretty freaky really, considering this is all just tweak and hope. There’s better to come too…
Stuck
Jellyfish Blob
Firefly
This is much more towards the painting effect I’ve been after. Much more layered, less spiky and more organic-looking. And a bit like a glowing fly. A little bit.
NB. You’ll find the bigger images (up to 1440-wide) up on Flickr for you to grab and linked from the images above, for backdrops or just to see the lovely detail.
August 8th, 2008 by Addy P.
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These are lovely Adam, I especially like the spooky moth and ‘Stuck’. Will you be able to animate their creation at all?
Cheers Mr Beast! They’re created just like this simpler early version, but with less slow-down. I can watch the little particle fellas zipping about and laying down layers of ‘paint’ and so on, so it does animate over time as it’s drawn. The big variations come from me messing with loads of variables in the code, so I’m currently working on a print res version with lots of easy controls so anyone can try it. Watch this space.
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