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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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"Impossible steps" for (Impossible objects (undecided geometry).)

Code at: https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2154613

Stairs that descend, yet somehow loop. One lone figure standing. Stairs seem to float. Textured orange background, blue figure, blue stairs.
Stairs that descend, yet somehow loop. One lone figure standing. Stairs seem to float. Textured brown background, blue figure, green stairs.

AaronReuland, (edited ) to genart
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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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"Between a high solid wall and an egg that break against it, I will always be on the side of the egg. No matter how right the wall may be and how wrong the egg, I will stand with the egg''. Quote by author Haruki Murakami. For (Generative Typography) and (use a new library, in this case p5.brush).
Code at: https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2150467

Quote above, each letter in a painted looking square, sized almost randomly. Words share the same color.
Quote above, each letter in a painted looking square, sized almost randomly. Words share the same color.
Quote above, each letter in a painted looking square, sized almost randomly. Words share the same color.

AaronReuland,
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An more full quote, which clarifies just a tiny bit.
"Between a high solid wall and an egg that break against it, I will always be on the side of the egg. No matter how right the wall may be and how wrong the egg, I will stand with the egg. Someone else will have to decide what is right and whats wrong; perhaps time or history will decide. If there were a novelist who, for whatever reason, wrote works standing with the wall, of what value would such works be?"

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@knowuh
Thank you! I know what you mean about the type and I did debate that quite a bit. In the end, I went with more legibility, but I still hem and haw about it. With one line commented out it would look like below. Genuary goes so fast, I'm sure I can give it a nice middle ground with more time, but I need to move on to the next prompt :spinny_cat_faster:

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"Flocking' is the theme for . I'd never implemented a flocking algorithm before and so I spent more time on the technical side and less on the aesthetic than I'd like. I do like my little fish-like squirmers though.
Code at: https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2149505

Small trailing particles in a coral-like palette flow across the screen, aligning as the near and then breaking apart and regrouping.

AaronReuland, to genart
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For (Bauhaus), I focused on the work of Joseph Albers, who taught at the Bauhaus and was married to Anni Albers (see ). A lot of his most famous work is based on color, but I found his shape-focused monochromes the most interesting.

Code at: https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2148362

Tightly drawn horizontal lines are interrupted by overlapping boxes formed by tightly packed diagonal lines. Some shallow boxes have black open tops. White lines on black.
Tightly drawn horizontal lines are interrupted by overlapping boxes formed by tightly packed diagonal lines. Some shallow boxes have black open tops. White lines on black.

AaronReuland,
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@carbontwelve Thanks!

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Making patterns like this is so personally satisfying and calming, my wife has said I've missed my calling as a wallpaper designer. Suffice to say I felt firmly in my wheelhouse making this recursive pattern for (Inspired by Islamic Art).

Code: https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2146858

AaronReuland, to genart
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10,000 parallel noised lines running noisily through palettes for . Using Spectral.js and simplex noise.

Code at :https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2145707

Undulated shift in color vertically with a sort of segmentation happening horizontally. Woody brown and green palette
Undulated shift in color vertically with a sort of segmentation happening horizontally. Orange, blue and grey palette.

bit101, to random
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Only half over, but participating in has been an amazing investment. Don't tell anyone, but I'm several days ahead of schedule. There are 3-4 things already that I have been wanting to explore, some for years. This forced me to get into them, and it's going to open up a lot of possibilities over the next year or more.

AaronReuland,
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@bit101 same. I’m currently up to the 24th (w some that need a little polish). Working ahead lets me spend more time on the prompts that really connect w me and ideas I want to explore further down the road.

AaronReuland,
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@bornach @bit101 I got 128x128… and also 8x8 and 16x16. Thought I was going nuts at first.

AaronReuland,
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@bit101 @bornach yeah, I think I noticed when I used my phone vs my laptop. Someone one discord found the snippet of code which reads ‘ // this is the bit of code that may infuriate people
a=localStorage['g2004jan23']||(localStorage['g2004jan23']=2**(3+Math.random()*5|0));
document.querySelector(' + p').innerText=a+'×'+a+'.'; ‘
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AaronReuland, to genart
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Honestly, after awhile I began to view (Use a physics library) with a certain amount of loathing and animosity. Physics engines are definitely not in my wheelhouse (or interest, really). I think the sketch started to reflect this.
(Falling stuff all taken from my photographs. Head is Olmec mask as photographed in the Detroit Institute of Art)

Code : https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2144601

AaronReuland, to random
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My combination of (lava lamp) and (wobbly function day). Combining sine waves to control the radius was pretty fun. Do wish I had tried to implement metaballs.

Code (such that it is) is at: https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2142756

Bigger and smaller wobbly blobs climb the canvas. They are shaded with gradients of black to blue and brown and a green background.

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'Anni Albers' is the prompt for . I only vaguely knew her work when I read the prompt and was so glad to be exposed to it more thoroughly. This is particularly inspired by her weaving "Intersecting".
Code at : https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2141567

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HexagonalFlush

Video https://youtu.be/YT8I2wWQtDs

Blogpost: https://blog.illestpreacha.com/genuary2024hexagonalflush

The prompt for Genuary 2024 Day 6 is Screensaver and Day 10 is Hexagonal
HexagonalFlush imagines a hexagonal screensaver coded in @hydra
Poem

Six Sided
Not Regular
But Intercellular
Deep Minded
As each side
Holds it own Reason and Rhyme


AaronReuland,
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@IllestPreacha @hydra This is super nice!

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For (ASCII - the diagonal pattern is composted of characters) & (hexagonal).

Code at : https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2139389

Grid of hexagons colored in a shifting palettes of blues, gold and reds.

AaronReuland, to random
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I just went sledding with my kids (10 & 14) in the dark. It may have been the most fun I’ve ever had in my life. Our dog chased us down the hill every time and tried to steal our gloves. You could see the stars. Even the teen laughed. No one took pictures. Hot damn, that was life.

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I've been reading Liu Cixin's "The Three Body Problem" so for and I imagined a loading animation for the game "Three body" that appears in the book. It does simulate physics like gravity, acceleration and such, but I make no claim to scientific accuracy.

Code at: https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2137921

Animation of three orbs circling each other chaotically, inside amber square. The words "Three Body" appear above the box. "Loading" strobes slowly below

AaronReuland,
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@epibyte Honestly, I can’t imagine how they are going to adapt such a sprawling series. So many characters over such a huge timeline. Also, I think they are going to have trouble with how absolutely bleak the story is at times.

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Genuary day 6: "screensaver”

This is my homage to the legendary After Dark flying toaster screensaver, from my student days working on 68k Macs. I've challenged myself here to make something resembling a toaster, wings and toast using no external models or textures. The solution is entirely functional, with no state.

https://github.com/jonathanhogg/flitter-examples/blob/main/genuary2024/day6.fl

Shiny, grey 3D toasters fly across a black screen, flapping white wings as they go. Slices of toast occasionally pop up from the toasters.

AaronReuland,
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@jonathanhogg Love it! I was really hoping I would see someone do 'flying toasters' for Genuary 6.

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For (screensaver), I decided to go slightly retro, show my age, and update the 'classic' windows screensaver 'Mystify Your Mind'.
Code/watch it run at : https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2137614

AaronReuland, to genart
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For I started with Vera Molnár's classic offset boxes. Added vertical lines of colors lerping through a palette. New patterns emerged.

code/ generate new versions at :https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2137077

offset 4X4 grid of boxes in boxes, each box rotates and smaller. Each box divided vertically (though tipped) into a range of colors.
offset 4X4 grid of boxes in boxes, each box rotates and smaller. Each box divided vertically (though tipped) into a range of colors.
offset 4X4 grid of boxes in boxes, each box rotates and smaller. Each box divided vertically (though tipped) into a range of colors.

AaronReuland, to genart
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Continuing to combine days for #genuary2024. #genuary3 (Droste effect) and #genuary4 (pixels).

Code/ endless animation at: https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2135858

#genuary #creativeCoding #p5js

noisy grids of pixel gradients zoom in from left onto a new grid expanding from the size of one of the pixels.

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