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Processing: More Collage Awesomeness

October 31, 2013 by michellechandra in Processing

Cut up my images again tonight to make some more static collages.

Super cool what is going on, would be cool if I could make things spin and animate!

Processing: Conditional Statements

September 24, 2013 by michellechandra in Processing

In last week’s Processing class, we covered Conditional Statements and creating user interface elements such as buttons and rollovers. I tried to take Dan Shiffman’s simple animation of a square moving around the edge of a window and decrease it inwards. Not surprisingly, I wasn’t able to figure it out on my own but luckily Dan showed me how! Creating this new animation required changing the conditional statements so the distance of my traveling square decreased inward from the edge as the animation runs (instead of the square simply looping along the edge of the window).

If I was a better programmer, this would be a video

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Generative Art and Processing

September 18, 2013 by michellechandra in Processing

I have two words for you: Generative Art

This week’s ICM course involved moving from a static, manual idea of Processing to animation and interaction. Not surprisingly, when Dan Shiffman began to show us different ways to create an interactive drawing, my initial reaction was : oooh! things move! shiny! colors! more! more! more!

Ziv Schneider and I met later in the week to discuss a complimentary collaboration for ICM. Luckily, Ziv came prepared having actually researched some pretty awesome examples of Generative Art as inspiration. In the context of my programming class, Generative Art is using Processing (programming language) to create artistic work (i.e. painting).

At the end of the day, I didn’t have much time so I decided play around with randomness, transparency and stroke weight to create painterly effects.

Here is my first attempt at building layers of color, thinking back to basic painting practices (the composition of the sketches is partially randomly generated): → Read more

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