{"id":12843,"date":"2019-12-24T15:42:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T15:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=12843"},"modified":"2020-01-30T01:21:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T01:21:10","slug":"polygon-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=12843","title":{"rendered":"Art from Code: Polygon Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/conference_work_emma-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12845\" srcset=\"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/conference_work_emma-1024x1024.png 1024w, http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/conference_work_emma-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/conference_work_emma-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/conference_work_emma-768x768.png 768w, http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/conference_work_emma.png 1182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For my conference project, I was greatly inspired by the works of Georg Nees and Grace Hertlein. I really admire the geometrical aspects of Nees\u2019 work. Geometry is very captivating to me whenever I look at a piece of work and thus I wanted to make something that would engage the audience. Hertlein is obviously very different in comparison to Nees. Her work, while made using computers, is more natural-looking and organic. For example, she uses a lot of trees as her subjects.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When comparing and admiring both Nees and Hertlein, I couldn\u2019t help but wonder what would happen if I were to combine the two separate ideas that they were trying to create through their art. However, I still wanted to make my project reflective of myself. Therefore I decided to make a landscape. Instead of trying to make the landscape look as natural as possible, I decided to make it very obvious that it was computer-generated. Besides, the computer does tend to take over at a certain point anyway, which makes it impossible to have total control. The result ended up being a mixture of waves with mountain-like shapes in the background.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to make the waves, I had to use noise and make a custom shape filled with triangles. The most difficult part was making the waves and then figuring out how to rotate them on the x-axis so that it looked like the waves were riding out into the distance. I think this was most difficult simply because I had to learn how to write the code on my own since we hadn\u2019t experimented with 3D code in class. It mainly was a lot of trial and error, but in the end, I got it to work.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would like to expand this project and create many more landscapes in the future. I like landscapes so much because I painted before I learned how to code, and so the intuition of painting and painting landscapes, in particular, is so fervent to me. However, I think if I were to create many more landscapes, I\u2019d make them even more abstract and perhaps not so rigid. While I like the geometrical aspects a lot, sometimes it makes the art feel too computer made, especially if one is going for a more organic feeling. There are so many ways to experiment with making noisy landscapes though, so I think there\u2019s a lot of room to design a wide variety of landscapes.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my conference project, I was greatly inspired by the works of Georg Nees and Grace Hertlein. I really admire the geometrical aspects of Nees\u2019 work. 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