For my proposal poster I wanted to give the computer agency by allowing it to decide the composition.
I first adapted the program in order to add a bit more variance in the generation, and also limited it so that it wouldn’t draw off the screen.
I then took the generation into illustrator and played around with a few different techniques – I wanted to simplify the form down as the original generation had a lot of lines which would be difficult to draw. However I also wanted the interpretation to be done by the computer.
On the left – Image trace which interprets images into shapes/lines, usally used to make logos out of jpegs. On the right is the line simplify function. This joined some shapes and began to introduce curves, which I quite liked the look of.
The simplify function could be run several times over for interesting results – much more dynamic curves.
A combination of the two created some intersting results…
I decided on a final generatin for my poster and tried laying out some text based on the room that was decided by the computer.
After much internal debate… I chose to crop in on the generation so it went off the page – I thought that made for a much more interesting compostion. I did however recognise that this was stripping some control from the computer which I did not like…
VCD 453 - Jason Fastier 