Genuary 20 - Generative architecture

Little rectangles were drawn when you moved the mouse.

Buildings

Genuary 21 - Collisions

The aim: to find the last circle that the computer drew. If you move the mouse around and find the right circle, it then turns a different colour. No screenshot as it didn't look that interesting.

Genuary 22 - Gradients only

Just some random lines of colour.

Gradients
I took the Ikea rug pattern from a previous day and added some dots!

Op art
Genuary 17 - Pi = 4

The prompt was "what happens if Pi = 4?" It turned out not a lot in the code I wrote.

Not quite circles

Genuary 18 - The spinning chips of destiny and the wind

My first attempt at the prompt of "What does wind look like?" went quite wrong and I have titled it instead the Spinning chips of destiny: video on Flickr.

In the end, I went with a sound recording I took of the wind, and then exported from Audacity with the following settings:

Format: Other uncompressed files
Header: Raw (header-less)
Encoding: U-Law.

I then changed the file name to have the extension .data and then loaded it into GIMP.

The Wind
Genuary 15 - Rug

The prompt for Genuary 15 was "design a rug". I based mine on Ikea's Stockholm rug, black and white stripes.

Genuary 16 - Colour sensing

I had fun with the "generative palette" prompt! I hooked up an Arduino to a colour sensor. Then in Processing, I got the computer to generate a palette based on the colour of the object you hold up to it. When you moved the mouse around, it drew dots based on that palette.

Colour sensing example
Today's prompt was black and white, so I cross-stitched a QR code! It leads to the Genuary website. Much easier than the black on black one.

Cross stitched QR code
Genuary 12 - Squares

The prompt was "subdivision" but I ran out of time and didn't finish what I was doing, so ended up with some squares like this:

Squares

Genuary 13 - Triangles

I also did not have much time yesterday, so just made some quick green triangles appear.

Video on Flickr: Green triangles.
I decided to use the esoteric programming language, Piet and got it to output IMPOSSIBLE. Piet works based on pictures. You draw coloured blocks and then change the hue and the lightness to use different commands. For a block for the letter 'I' you could draw a block with 73 pixels as that's the ASCII code for I.

The more difficult bit seemed to be making sure it jumped to the right coloured block and also making sure it terminated at the end.

Here is a screenshot of my program that outputs IMPOSSIBLE:

Impossible

(The actual image ended up very small.)
I painted the outside of a circle with conductive paint and hooked it up to an Arduino so that when you touched it, it would read out Tau times the radius.

Video on Flickr: Tau.
The prompt for Genuary 9 was "the textile design patterns of public transport seating". I take the District line most frequently, so decided to use that moquette as a starting point.

I tried the pattern in different colours:

Moquette - 2

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A million circles went for a random walk.

Random walk
Genuary 5

Some green squares: Video on Flickr.

Genuary 6

For "primitive shapes only" I cut out triangles from paper and then got the computer to tell me where to put them, but the result looked like a small child's messy collage, so I’m not going to share it.

Genuary 7

I took a sound recording of a tube train (at Blackfriars), loaded it into Audacity, then exported it, and loaded it into GIMP. The prompt was “Use software that is not intended to create art or images.”

The sound of a tube train
The prompt was "black on black" so I wrote some code to generate a random sentence and then create a cross-stitch pattern of morse code for that sentence. I then sewed the pattern with black thread onto black Aida fabric. The shades of black are closer to each other in real life than they look on the photo so it was a bit tricky to stitch!

Morse code cross stitch
Genuary 2:

The Genuary prompt was layers upon layers upon layers. I took a number of sound recordings and ended up with layers of sound. The version I liked most though was various recordings of birds outside my house. Layers of Birds: https://m.soundcloud.com/user-592158466/layers-of-birds

Genuary 3:

42 lines of code.

I wanted to use an Esolang for this but couldn't find one that seemed suited to make generative art and I could write 42 lines of.

Then I started writing some code in Atari Basic, but my computer crashed and I gave up and went to Processing.

In the end I had distorted asterisks (as 42 is the ASCII code for an asterisk.)

Asterisks
The Genuary prompt was "horizontal or vertical lines only". It was New Year's Day and I needed coffee so attached an Arduino and temperature sensor and made coloured lines appear in Processing depending on the temperature.

Coffee

Coffee lines
Method

I decided to use Finnegans Wake by James Joyce to lead me on a walk. I extracted all the lines in Finnegans Wake that had “left” or “right” in them to use as a basis for the walk. If in the text the next line had “left” I would take the next left and if “right”, I'd take the next right.

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Door

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I can hear a door opening somewhere when I take a book from my bookcase.

Video on Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2qzzcCS

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