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Genuary 20 - Generative architecture

Little rectangles were drawn when you moved the mouse.



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.

Genuary 17 - Pi = 4

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



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.

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.

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:



(The actual image ended up very small.)

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:



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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.”

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.)

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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