Professor Casey Reas, TA Sean Dockray

  Leon Hong




 

Assignment: Write a program defining a system which generates near infinite variations on a core form. This exercise flows from the ideas presented in Karl Gerstner's Designing Programmes. Focus on a strong Macro composition with details at the micro level. Export your forms to either Illustrator or Maya and refine the rendering within these environments.

Project: A General Shape is drawn by the user. Once the shape is defined, the user begins drawing points. The position of the points determine the deformation of the shape and the behavior and visuals of the points themselves. Depending on the speed and direction of the gestures, the overall quality and expression of the shape and points are affected.

 

Source Code (*pde)***

Based on one shape, and nine different gesture imputs, nine images were exported as Illustrator files. The overall shapes were heavily cleaned up and images were cropped.

9 Images (*jpg)

-- April 20, 2005

***Source code is extremely buggy, inefficient, ugly, and at times unexecutable.