Author: artgorithm

Polygon shape comes from a sketch I draw with many clouds of random shapes:

Doing some experiments with the great and powerful paperjs library (http://paperjs.org/) I first tests the different parameters to smooth a path :

I choose the continuous parameter to smooth the path created with random points. To recreate random path, one option is simply to create random points in a square:

But this option has some issues, in particular when points are too close : that creates shapes that are not very nice. In fact, I saw that you can actually generate interesting shapes using a path that randomly picks up points evenly distributed around a circle. For example if you have 4 points (in red) or 5 points (in blue) that are evenly distributed around a circle, you can create different shape by using a path that randomly picks up the points in the circle:

With 4 points you have two different shapes, for 5 points 5 different shapes. With 6 points, there are 14 different shapes.

Polygon shape uses paths with 4 to 12 evenly distributed around a circle, that creates a lot of different shapes:

Marzipan chocolate is one of my favorite treat.

The bar is wrapped with thin foil that can be fold so easily it could be turn into some kind of random algorithm.

The result is a simple work that fold twice a series of two-colors foils.

Why not using Fxhash, a platform dedicated to generative art NFTs, to create unique Halloween mask ?

fxhash — Halloween Monster Mask

This Experiment 20 is an update of a 8 years old previous project that uses all the power of the Fxhash platform to generate printable mask you can practically (in a certain way) use for yourself or your chlidren.

Each monster has 2 to 12 tentacles and the form of his head may vary.

You can download an image on Fxhash by clicking ‘P’ on a draw. Print the image without marge for an adult, adjust marging for a young child.

This second (of a series of three) tribute to Robert Delaunay is based on Relief-disques, 1936

This painting is a colorful solar system that uses the patterns of the artist.

As the painting is a version of the solar system, the natural thought is to see it move. That is the purpose of this new experiment available in Fxhash.

The 100 draws available in Fxhash uses 11 different colormaps, three of them from photos of Robert Delaunay’s paintings, and other colormaps from specific photos.

Each draw is static during 30 seconds, then the animation starts for 6 minutes, pauses during 30 seconds before restarting for 6 minutes, and so on.

The cellular automaton tested in this experiment has 255 states. A random colormap is applied to each of the states. At each iteration the state of the pixel increases or decreases depending of the state of the sum of its 8 neighbors.

255 different functions has been tested and some of them have been subjectively regrouped into 6 different types of dynamic.

279 of this generative art will be available on fxhash — experiment 15 July 6, 2022.

First the monster type:

Then the labyrinth type 1:

The labyrinth type 2:

The labyrinth type 3:

The labyrinth type 4:

And finally the labyrinth type 5: