What's New? Latoocarfians and Talks

After a long hiatus, I've finally published new content to my Artsnova Digital Art Gallery web site. Frankly, I've been busy with other projects and updating my Artsnova web site got pushed down the queue. (Note that this blog is actually separate from the web site.) In addition to agreeing to manage the Enterprise in Space Orbiter Design Contest last fall, I undertook an even larger project – designing and launching my own photography web site at Jim Plaxco Photography. Still in my queue of to-do items is converting this blog into a design that is mobile-device friendly – moving up the queue as a consequence of Google's soon to be updated search ranking algorithm which will push non-mobile-friendly sites further down the search engine results page.

I've also been busy working on an algorithmic art book project. To date I have created approximately 40 plus illustrations for the book. My target for the total number of illustrations is in the 60 to 80 range – with the final count depending upon how the extra illustrations will impact the book's final cost and price. This will be what I hope is the first in a series of books on different forms of computer art.

Two additions I made were two new art presentations: The Beauty of Algorithmic Art and Designing Algorithmic Art: From Concept to Realization. Both of these talks draw heavily on the work I am doing on my algorithmic art book. I will be giving one, possibly both, of these talks at a regional MENSA convention this fall.

I've also added a new computer art tutorial – Latoocarfian Chaotic Function Tutorial. This tutorial explains some of the function's math while providing the source code for a Processing programming language implementation. This is a beginner's level tutorial and will hopefully encourage someone to more seriously consider this avenue of artistic creation.

In exploring these Latoocarfian chaotic functions I decided to create an expanded variation for the creation of additional art for my book project. One example is A Day In The Life Of A Latoocarfian – so titled as I had the program that was creating this particular artwork run for one full day on a separate dedicated computer.

This week I was also working on an interactive generative painting program which is now basically complete and which I will be writing about in my next blog post.

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| Return to the Blog Index | This entry was posted on Saturday, April 11th, 2015 at 9:32 am and is filed under Algorithmic Art, Digital Art, Presentations, Processing.