Art from Code

I struggled to figure out and create my final conference project would be, but this class has made me change the way I think and problem-solve. So when it came to my conference project I just started playing with a…

The “Bee Simulation” (or Adaptive Pathfinding in a Dynamic Energy Ecosystem) is an interactive digital environment where autonomous agents, called collectors, navigate a grid to interact with resource nodes. Nodes hold energy that the collectors seek to gather, following programmed…

Frogs in a Pond is an interactive ecosystem in which frogs are lazily sitting on lily pads waiting for their next meal. Flies buzz around, and when they come into contact with the frogs, they are eaten. The frogs get…

The MIDI pond is a generative midi device that spawns roaming circles, which when colliding with each-other will send notes from the C Major scale to a digital midi bus. The Idea of the program is to generate tonally consistent…

Our final, and conference, project for Art From Code was to design an ecosystem of some sort. I thought for a while on what type I should design, and more importantly how to go about doing it. I thought about…

DESCRIBE THE OBJECT This piece consists of three different moving parts: a black circle, a yellow circle, and a purple circle. The black and yellow circles move in the same pattern and speed but in opposite directions, starting in the…

DESCRIBE THE OBJECT This work was an experiment with code in an attempt to create multiple moving parts in one image that had some type of relationship to one another. The two yellow rings constantly move around in circles while…

My conference project is an eco system in which triangles and squares collide with one another and eat each other. The inspiration for my work comes from those popular online .io games where players try to eat each other to…

DESCRIBE THE OBJECT This project is part of my optical illusion collection. One of the themes that really interested me this semester was creating (occasional 3D) optical illusions through hard code. This ‘Pink Rose’ is a bunch of organized rectangles…

When I was coming up with what I wanted my final project to be I thought about a watching a tree go through all the seasons like a montage from a movie. The ecosystem starts with spring and rain that causes the leaves to grow. It then transitions to summer and then fall. The leaves change color and fall. When the leaves fall the ground changes color and reveals a squirrel and bird in the tree who then leave the tree before winter. When it becomes winter it starts to snow and the ground changes color again. And then just like the seasons it becomes spring again.

DESCRIBE THE OBJECT My code consists of eleven circles of circles extending out from a center circle. The circles’ directions go in the same direction every other line and then another direction every other line. The circles in the circles…

DESCRIBE THE OBJECT This project contains hundreds of points that are randomly placed around the screen that are constantly moving. Every time they get within a certain distance of each other, they connect causing a line to appear in between…

DESCRIBE THE OBJECT Drawing from the world of platformer games, this piece has three main objects. The rainbow circles, the grayscale squares and the lavender platforms. Based on these objects, occasionally the background of the piece will flash this shade…

An open mouth with keyboard commands for each key begs to be played…. My intent was to create an instrument that could accompany a DJ. But this instrument would be different than the rest of their equipment, as it focuses…

DESCRIBE THE PROJECT This project is a coded animation based on a scene from the short television miniseries, Over the Garden Wall, and depicts two frogs in dapper red suits playing upright bass and accordion respectively. I used the software…

Describe the object “I suck at golf(and code)” is a piece coded using software called processing. Depicted is a never-ending and maddening scene as the golf balls swirl and dash across the screen never meeting the satisfaction of making their…

DESCRIBE THE OBJECT The lanterns rise from a far away castle, like fragments  of light. The sun has set, but it still paints the horizon. It feels like a dream, as a boat rocks gently against the water of the…

These are some of my early experiments in coding. My first image is of Bubbles from the Powerpuff Girls. I was recently thinking about playing with bubbles as a kid and knew I wanted that to be part of what I had in my design. This caused me to think of watching the Powerpuff Girls and I added it to my design. I started by creating Bubbles and then added the bubbles that float across the screen. For me this is just a fun and nostalgic image.
The second image is from one of my earliest designs. I had the idea to try to create a disco-esque Pac-Man. As I started to code it became more abstract in nature. I started with the circles in the corners and then coded the circles that bounce across the screen. This is one of the only pieces I did where I didn’t quite know exactly what it would look like when I finished.
The third image is of a kitchen looking out towards the window. The code then transitions from the day (as pictured above) to a night scene where the iced tea becomes a mug and the pizza becomes a cookie. This was one of my first times trying to create a full image. I wanted to try to depict a summer day where you don’t have any responsibilities to worry about.

This project aims to generate a dreamscape composed of a compilation of images found from various online sources and some from my own camera roll. This cross over between online scavenging and personal sources meshes together elements that are both…

I have always loved the manifestations of line drawings; it is fascinating to me that the meaning of each drawing is expressed beyond just some simple lines. As I began coding, I wanted to do line drawings with code to…