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Generative Art Projects Uncategorized

composing drawings for draw-something

Stage One

1. Generate a number of points within the image bounding box.
2. Force some points to be on the bounds.
Modify the current figure form generation system to choose from these points.

Stage Two

3. Generate lines by joining the points.
Modify the figure form generation system to choose from these lines.

Stage Three

4. Subdivide some of the lines.
5. Split some of the overlapping lines.

Alternatively create the hull or polygon for the figure and generate forms within it using points on the border, lines between them, and various subdivisions.

Stage Four

Implement various algorithms for consuming the lines and points. From back to front, most simplifying to most simple:

Voronoi or region growing. (Use a flat coloured plane sometimes.
Convex hull.

Closed polygon.

Open polygon.

Line set.

Polyline.

Line.

Point.

Don’t use every technique in every drawing. Increase tightness of line following from back to front. Colour by plane.

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State

A helpless, fearful despair
that I have not felt for a quarter of a century.
A vertiginous clarity of the flow of patterns of all things that I have not seen in fifteen years.

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Free Culture

Open Literature

Two “Open” literary projects.

NewsGrist on an author opening up some of his stories for playwrights:

Jonathan Lethem Goes Open Source

It’s an excellent move. Why he isn’t using a CC licence is beyond me, though.

And Penguin Books are experimenting with writing a book through a wiki:

A Million Penguins 

Ghost authorship, multiple authorship and finishing services for books are common, and movie & TV scripts are written by teams, so with a good model to follow there is no reason why novels shouldn’t be written by a competent team.

Wikipedia would be a terrible model for writing a book, a giant uncoordinated game of Exquisite Corpse.

The Linux Kernel would be an excellent model for writing a book. Competent contributors working to an understood design with their contributions being audited and accepted or rejected by competent integrators.