Monday 21 March 2011

Wallpaper FINALS

My final set of wallpapers for DSDN142 Project 1

I decided in the end to stick with a simple, unobtrusive colour theme and tried to base my composition structurally with some degree of symmetry. Each circle in the panel is different, based on randomly generated numbers and varying transparencies/fills.








Panel 4
http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=24421



Wallpaper Inspiration

My original inspiration for the wallpaper was from artwork I found. I wanted to break away from the repetitive PatternMaker code we had been previously using, and create something a little more abstract. However I desired to keep to simple geometric forms.




I liked the combination of vibrant gradient colour contrasting with the black background. Despite being made of repeating circles, it is still very eye catching to me.


Monochromatic gradient. Minimalistic and beautiful.



Probably my greatest influence. I liked the subtle colours/gradient + addition of variations on a repeating element, i.e circles.

Thursday 10 March 2011

Wallpaper Sketches

Sketches for a set of four wallpapers. I wanted something which would join all four panels as a whole.









Monday 7 March 2011

DSDN142 Week One PatternMaker Exercises

Using Ben Jack's PatternMaker our first assignment was to produce a range of sketches and post four -


The most beautiful,


The most interesting,


The fanciest,


and a clearly specified one based on our lecture hand sketches.


Deciding which categories these particularly fitted into was a bit of a moot point, as beauty and interest are entirely subjective...




I liked this one for the monochromatic colour scheme and simply for the cleanness of it
Fairly simple coding of course, just learning to use bezier curves.






If I learnt anything from making this sketch, it is that 'impossible triangles' are named so for a reason. On a more technical side, I feel positive that there could have been a simpler way to go about achieving this as I spent a long time simply having to estimate where to put coordinates.




There's nothing fancy about these (very simple) lines. I really liked this one however and selected it as the 'fanciest' because of how the lines affect each other e.g the almost 3D look at the edges.



And lastly, a 'clearly specified' pattern based on a lecture sketch. To be perfectly honest I wasn't entirely sure where I was supposed to be going with this. But it has taught me that perhaps translating ideas from paper to computer is an area to work on!