Starting six years ago this month: "City Planning," a series of pen plots that imagines fictional city grids. This algorithm evolved over the years to include circles, waterways, and devoid areas and I continue to build upon it.
A #generative#PenPlot drawing of parallel lines that form rectangles in white ink on black paper. In certain quadrants, the angle changes. It looks like a fictional city street map.
A #generative#PenPlot drawing of parallel lines that form rectangles. In certain quadrants, the angle changes. There's also circles and large areas left blank. It looks like a fictional city street map.
A #generative#PenPlot drawing of a grid of parallel lines that form rectangles. In certain quadrants, the angle changes, includes circles, and twisty waterways in hatched blue. It looks like a fictional city street map.
Vintage plotters are amazing machines to watch as they scribble on paper. Was the Brother typewriter you had the Type-A-Graph? I have the Sears OEM version (the not so cleverly named Type-O-Graph). 😊
City Planning is based on a growth algorithm. With different constraints and rules, get some different results. In this animation, the lines grow and divide rapidly in any direction. The result resembles fracturing of glass. This as well as all my pen plotter art is programmed in Python.
Or a design that resembles Frank Lloyd Wright's prairie windows? Of course, it was only appropriate to plot these on acetate so it could be displayed on a window :)
Most recently, I’ve revisited this growth algorithm to incorporate my color style. These plots imagine a city plan that stretches beyond the surface to show multiple layers. Imagine these layers as subterranean levels or perhaps different periods of time. CMY ink on 11”x25”watercolor paper. Hope you enjoy them!
Detail (upper left) from a generative pen plot of cyan, yellow, and magenta lines whose end points touch but not intersect, with certain bounded areas hatched. The colors layer on top of one another to create vibrant colors. A large circle dominates the center-right of the image which interrupts the otherwise straight lines. #PenPlotter
Detail (lower right) from a generative pen plot of cyan, yellow, and magenta lines whose end points touch but not intersect, with certain bounded areas hatched. The colors layer on top of one another to create vibrant colors. A large circle dominates the center-right of the image which interrupts the otherwise straight lines. #PenPlotter
Detail from a generative pen plot of cyan, yellow, and magenta lines whose end points touch but not intersect, with certain bounded areas hatched. The colors layer on top of one another to create vibrant colors. A large circle dominates the center of the image which interrupts the otherwise straight lines. #PenPlotter
Detail from a generative pen plot of cyan, yellow, and magenta lines whose end points touch but not intersect, with certain bounded areas hatched. The colors layer on top of one another to create vibrant colors. A large circle dominates the center of the image which interrupts the otherwise straight lines. #PenPlotter
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