Genuary 1 - 7
Jan. 13th, 2023 07:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
squirmeliaI've been taking part in Genuary this month. The idea is to create generative art every day for the month of January, and there are prompts given every day.
Genuary 1: Zoetrope
The prompt for the 1st was "Perfect loop / Infinite loop / endless GIFs", but on the 1st of January, I did not have access to a computer. At first I tried making slides for an old View Master I found, but that was too tricky, so I ended up making a simple Zoetrope, with a marble in the middle. I rolled dice to determine where coloured dots should be placed.
Genuary 2: Listening to coffee
For the prompt, "Made in ten minutes", I made a cup of coffee and listened to it for 10 minutes. The sounds changed as the temperature changed. I used an Arduino, a temperature sensor and Processing for this. See the video on Flickr by clicking the image:
Genuary 3: Hammerglitch Bridge
For the prompt, "Glitch Art", I wrote a script in Processing to load an image, convert it to a different format, save it again, then load it again. Over time, this degraded the images. This is one of Hammersmith Bridge:
Genuary 4: Intersections
I stood on street corners, listening to intersections. I took sound recordings, then used Processing to randomly change the rate and to randomly jump to a place in the sound files. Intersections on Sound Cloud.
Genuary 5: Debug View
I made Processing display the values of the variables it was using to put the text at the locations and the variables with the RGB values used to determine the colour of the text.
Genuary 6: Fibonacci Face
The prompt was to "steal like an artist", so I took inspiration from Douglas Coupland's You’ll Never Know What We Really Look Like. I used face detection in Processing and then got it to draw rectangles over my face based on the Fibonacci sequence and random colours.
Video on Flickr:
Genuary 7: Better weird than dead
The prompt was to sample a colour palette from your favourite movie/album cover. I found a DVD of Eerie, Indiana on my bookcase and looked at the colours on that, and ended up with this:
Genuary 1: Zoetrope
The prompt for the 1st was "Perfect loop / Infinite loop / endless GIFs", but on the 1st of January, I did not have access to a computer. At first I tried making slides for an old View Master I found, but that was too tricky, so I ended up making a simple Zoetrope, with a marble in the middle. I rolled dice to determine where coloured dots should be placed.
Genuary 2: Listening to coffee
For the prompt, "Made in ten minutes", I made a cup of coffee and listened to it for 10 minutes. The sounds changed as the temperature changed. I used an Arduino, a temperature sensor and Processing for this. See the video on Flickr by clicking the image:
Genuary 3: Hammerglitch Bridge
For the prompt, "Glitch Art", I wrote a script in Processing to load an image, convert it to a different format, save it again, then load it again. Over time, this degraded the images. This is one of Hammersmith Bridge:
Genuary 4: Intersections
I stood on street corners, listening to intersections. I took sound recordings, then used Processing to randomly change the rate and to randomly jump to a place in the sound files. Intersections on Sound Cloud.
Genuary 5: Debug View
I made Processing display the values of the variables it was using to put the text at the locations and the variables with the RGB values used to determine the colour of the text.
Genuary 6: Fibonacci Face
The prompt was to "steal like an artist", so I took inspiration from Douglas Coupland's You’ll Never Know What We Really Look Like. I used face detection in Processing and then got it to draw rectangles over my face based on the Fibonacci sequence and random colours.
Video on Flickr:
Genuary 7: Better weird than dead
The prompt was to sample a colour palette from your favourite movie/album cover. I found a DVD of Eerie, Indiana on my bookcase and looked at the colours on that, and ended up with this: