I should be tooting less and concentrating, but… ask me about drawing with #Python! Check out #py5 and #pyp5js, they bring in the drawing vocabulary from #Processing & #P5js
My first large plot in many months: a new Carousel, about 5 hours in, about 2 hours remaining. Cyan and yellow are down, magenta going down now, and finally black. Python generated and plotted on a vintage HP DraftPro DXL on 24”x36” watercolor paper.
My first #PortfolioDay! I’m Paul and I’m an artist that uses modern code to create unique works using vintage pen plotters, which I also collect and repair as needed. My works are typically in CMY color but I also do monochrome or other specialty inks. I can do up to 36”x48”.
Still plotting large works, this time from the CMY Tangled Plus series. If you look closely, you can see it’s created from a structure of tessellated plus signs and hatched with CMY inks. This one is great seen from a distance as well as mesmerizing to see up close.
24”x36” watercolor with a vintage HP pen plotter, created and plotter with Python. 10 hours of plot time.
Over the years, I've played with code and particle systems to create art. In the systems I develop, each particle has an atomic number and interacts with other particles based on their atomic numbers. In various ways, they 'draw' when they collide.
In this piece, I'm combining one of these particle systems with the Fibonacci system.
The end result? Looks a bit like a quilt, I think.
Trying to get back into creative coding. The one thing that I've always wanted to do and never figured out is synchronizing music with something like p5.js or p5.py or something similar. What I'd like to do is drive the sketch with MIDI data, which is also being used to play music.
I’ve been #RetroComputing for a while now but I wanted to do a little #PenPlotter today since I’m participating in #ptpx this year. Here’s an idea I’ve wanted to implement for a while. Designed in Python, plotter on a HP 7550 Plus vintage plotter.
Today's prompt is "Particles", and I've posted some of my thinking and images my code produced on my Patreon and Ko-fi. These are public posts, not just for my suporters:
👋 I have a lot of ideas about where I want to take my art practice going into 2024 relating to creating animated artworks (that are a combination of mechanical and computer systems) but my background is 99% software (assembly upwards basically).
The question: what are your recommendations to get started building computer controlled mechanical systems? Arduino books/kits? RPi? Something else?
FWIW, I will be pursuing scale (# devices) so if that affects approach please lmk. 🙏
Recently, I've been experimenting with new versions of my Generative Nerves series and exploring more color combinations. I love how they look, all together like this.
These are still a work in progress. My first test prints, on aluminum, showed me that I still had some work to do on them before they're just right.
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.