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AaronReuland

@AaronReuland@mstdn.social

Creative Coder and art maker. Professionally, an educator in coding, making, information literacy. Nature lover. He/him. #generativeArt #algorithmicArt #creativeCoding #penplotting #p5js Sketchbook at OpenProcessing; https://openprocessing.org/user/183691?view=sketches&o=180

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Taking these shapes from concept to code took me far longer then it probably should have. One of those sketches that take a lot of thought and effort to try and look effortless.

Code at : https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2203337

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I quite liked how this macro photo I snapped of a small mullberry blossom came out.

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"Point-Line-Plane' is which I interpreted as "Kandinsky'. Decided to plot them so I'm counting them as too (128 x 128 (mm) -which is what it showed on my phone and 12 X 12 (cm) - which my laptop showed).

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Been sick in bed for the last couple days. Between sniffles and sleeping I started code-doodling. This started as an attempt at splattered paint, but gradually found form. I guess I'm ready for spring already.

Code at : https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2179025

Off-white canvas gradually fills with colorful gradient filled lines coming from top, grassy lines coming from bottom and droopy flower comes spreading out in middle top.

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Finally got back to using my ! A little of an autumnal scene.

In Noodler's Ink 'Cayenne'.

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"Branch Triptych".
A nice peaceful weekend exploration of a space colonization algorithm.

Run it yourself/see code at OpenProcessing: https://openprocessing.org/sketch/1973099

Triptych of three tall rectangles of different colors being quickly filled in with branching shapes from top and bottom

AaronReuland, to random
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I’ve been trying to teach myself to make linocut prints. Brand new at it. Feels good to work with my hands. It’s sometime hard to learn a new medium but I’m trying be proud of small progresses and not focus on the flaws too much. Trying botanicals to start- but maybe abstractions might be fun.

Bright green paper with rough print of milkweed plants

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"Pond / Life"

Coded in

Code and generative version here:
https://openprocessing.org/sketch/1987635

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Every six months or so I get the itch to add to the series I call 'figures' of very minimalist imaginary animated textbook illustrations. Here was the first 'chapter' using circles.

I'm working on chapter 3 (triangles) now.

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The for the week is 'remix', so I got to messing with and a sketch by the illustrious @davepagurek.

Maybe not the most flattering self-portrait...

code (mostly Dave's) at :https://openprocessing.org/sketch/1970796

swirling 3d images of artist's face- closed eyes, beared, greying dark hair

AaronReuland, to genart
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Prompt for is 'Code for one hour. At the one hour mark, you’re done.' I started with a vague idea of having a pattern in two color schemes layered by floating blobs. Used the the blobs from wobbly function day. I like the idea that this is an abstract autumn forest with cold clouds overhead, but that narrative is a happy accident. I stayed true to the prompt and stopped at an hour.

Code at :https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2158408

Soft autumn colors in triangular grid with dark lines in a vaguely tree-like pattern. Blobs travel up the canvas, displaying the same pattern but in cooler shades of green and blue

AaronReuland, to genart
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Well, that recursion turned out kind of pretty.

AaronReuland, to macrophotography
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AaronReuland, (edited ) to genart
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For (Grow a seed). I built a system with the space colonization algorithm. Each click plants a seed and disperses some 'nutrients' which all planted seeds compete for.

Code at: https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2157103

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Building upon my experiments with the space colonization algorithm. This time placing defined constraints on the placement of the 'nutrients' the growths are seeking, in order to roughly form shapes and a tiling pattern.

Code/ run at : https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2169799

Branching growth pattern fill in rectangular shapes (minus regularly placed circles.). Then each circle is filled with the same sort of growths.

AaronReuland, to genart
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AaronReuland, to minimalism
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Finished my second ! I try to make something real and good for every prompt. Some always succeed far better than others. I learn a lot and am left with many threads to pick up and explore. Have really enjoyed seeing everyone's work this genuary, nice job all! Here's a little generative goodbye song, sung by simplex noise tuned to a minor key.
Code/endless song: https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2162435

Wavy lines squeeze in to the notes, while colors squares in center fade in and out to the notes.

AaronReuland, to genart
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Well, is SDF's and is shaders, which often use SDF's. Seems natural to combine them. Last year,'s Genuary the SDF prompt lead me to spend February and March learning shaders. However... as soon as I learned enough to make something decent, I went right back to Javascript. So this sad blob is a slight reworking of where I left off in my shader journey.
Code at: https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2159483

pulsing, jelly-like blob of concentric gradients of muted blue and black

AaronReuland, to genart
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Playing with some botanical themes. "crocus"

Code at :https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2229772

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