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Processing: Meta-Instacollage

November 17, 2013 by michellechandra in Photography, Processing

Last night, I ran my collages through my collage machine 4-5 times. The results become far removed from the original images.

The collages are harder to look at to some extent, and have a painterly quality to them. → Read more

Processing: Collage All the Collages of Collages

November 15, 2013 by michellechandra in Processing

I am having a little too much fun making collages out of my Instagram photos.

The results are getting even weirder and more dreamy now that I am collaging the collages! → Read more

Processing: Instacollage and the Instagram API

November 13, 2013 by michellechandra in Photography, Processing

Today, I learned how to access the Instagram API and ran my Instacollage sketch using Instagram photos pulled from the web. (Many thanks to Uttam who helped me figure out how to work with the Instagram API!)

Less talk, more collage!

First up, “Instacool collages” which combine recent “popular” images (photos with thousands of likes).

Many of the Instacool collages have at least one or more of the following: sports, scantily clad women/cheerleaders and expensive cars/bling. Perhaps not surprising? → Read more

Processing: Instacollage – New and Improved!

November 12, 2013 by michellechandra in Photography, Processing

Feeling super excited about my Instacollage idea, especially now that I have a basic sketch up and running.

The collage permutations that are generated are endless (and beautiful!) → Read more

Processing: Final Project – Color Collage Animation

November 5, 2013 by michellechandra in Animation, Processing

For my final project for Processing, I am exploring creating a kaleidoscope/spirograph-inspired collage animation. My initial inspiration for this project started with an earlier image manipulation sketch in which I sliced up two photos and over-laid them to create some optical-illusion effects.

My latest sketch slices up my photo/s (or video) into one-pixel rectangles and spirals them in an outward fashion, vortex-like. The result makes me think of woven fabric threads. When I use a photograph in the collage, the color is static but the sketch changes shape in size and pattern, moving across the screen according to the mouse. Batu just sent me this link to the CHANDRA X-Ray Observatory photos of space, which makes for a rather nice collage me-thinks.

Space Visualized!

When the collage sketch pulls from video, the colors of the collage are constantly changing. The result makes me think of twinkling lights, or fireworks, or an amusement park/ferris wheel. → Read more

Processing: Collage Madness

November 2, 2013 by michellechandra in Processing

Every time I alter one small piece of my Processing collage animation, it gets better and better. My brain can barely handle so much goodness. Today, I layered a bunch of photos in my collage animation (instead of having just one photo), and changed the rotate angle for each photo.

The order of the photos determines how the colors are layered, and the rotate angle dramatically changes the curvaceous results.