I just wanted to post some of my explorations I did in order to make The Generative Eye 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:

I wanted to post some of my progress before it evolves even further. I feel like I have made some major breakthroughs in my ultimate goal of making art from code. Not a new concept at all, but Picasso wasn’t the only painter.

Here is a test I ran today. The image this is based off is just something I grabbed off flickr, was just for testing, and won’t be used for any final prints (credit: Lars Stephan).

To summarize how this was done; I use a source image (such as the one from flickr), and wrote code to add “brushes” to the stage. Each brush randomly moves around the “canvas”, picks up the colors of the pixel from the source image, and paints a series of shapes to the stage and each shape jitters around and scales to help add some randomness.

I have already evolved the script past this point, but more to come later.

I just updated my entire photography section on Flickr. Somewhere around the sum of 130 images. Here are a few of my favorites, some of which I hadn’t discovered the first time through my collection.

As always, my full Flickr stream is here.