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I recently finished another piece for an upcoming gallery show. I am calling this one The Generative Wasp Landing. Obviously it is a followup piece to my first one, The Generative Eye.

This time I decided to use a slightly different “brush” by using more of a circular glob shape, and I wanted their motion to be different than the first. I ended up using brownian motion to make the brushes move around the canvas this time. This gave it a much more organic feel than my first piece. I also had them scanning over a texture this time so that they would give the impression of real paint much more than just vector shapes. The entire application was written in Adobe Flash CS3.

The final piece will be on display:

Thursday, July 30, 6-9pm
Demitasse Cafe, 1066 W. Taylor ST. Chicago IL

Here is a video of this piece being generated:

And a few other shots I took while working on this final piece.

The Generative Orchid 1:

The Generative Orchid 2:

The Generative Wasp Landing – Detail Shot:

My original photo I used for this piece:

I just got back from my first gallery showing. It is at this cool cafe called Demitasse Cafe and they feature a new set of work every few months. One of my friends generally organized it and suggested I submit “one of those things I do”. It is the first time I have actually printed my work and I wasn’t completely satisfied with the results, but it was very good to see how the digital work translated outside the monitor. I think the main thing that was lost was all the tiny details you can see on screen of each individual shape of the “brush” that paints the picture.

Here is the final piece and some details: