{"id":7497,"date":"2017-12-12T14:28:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T14:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=7497"},"modified":"2020-05-06T21:27:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T21:27:01","slug":"little-big-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=7497","title":{"rendered":"Art from Code: Little Big Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Learning to code this semester has been one hell of a journey. I\u2019m not that proud to say I\u2019ve cried about coding, but I have. There are witnesses. But it has been a worthy experience, and an important one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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My first lines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have trouble with depth perception. Which is kind of funny because I\u2019m a softball player, but a problem nonetheless. My mom says it\u2019s because she let me play computer games before my brain was finished developing that section. Needless to say, this has affected what I thought I could do in terms of art. I see things and I think I can paint that and then I put paint to canvas and his nose is between his eyebrows. But in growing and developing my art, I eventually learned that I can adjust to my depth perception issue by looking at lines. I started thinking about how subjects are made up of a configuration of lines.<\/p>\n

All that being said, I was drawn to the snowflake starter code because the shapes based in clear straight lines that make sense in the part of my brain. I always wanted to draw animals, but I had a lot of trouble with their natural shapes. When looking for tattoo ideas I came across these images of animals created from triangles. I love the interpretation because it looks natural and geometric at the same time.<\/p>\n

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My fave Mondrian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is much of why I liked Mondrian. He uses lines to create these interesting and engaging pieces and I wanted to do something in that vein. Though mine is much more chaotic than most of his.<\/p>\n

Coding this was easy because I learned early on that I like working with triangles in a system. Their shape is so dynamic to me and they have such a practicality in them. So I decided to code this elephant triangle by triangle in code. And I decided I wanted to tie it into my system. I thought the movement that came with the manipulations I made to the original code gave the system a unique and exciting texture. It gives the piece movement which it should have.<\/p>\n

I found the elephant tedious to code mostly. It was a lot of copy and pasting points and connecting the dots, but also making sure to keep track of which points are where, how long each line, what angle?<\/p>\n

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Progress!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I never thought I was going to code a system. I know I didn\u2019t do it myself but even just fixing it and make it do what I want it to do was kind of surprising, at least when I thought about it a few weeks ago. I\u2019m still working on the movement of the lines, but I like the kind of static-ness that makes it more like a background.<\/p>\n

The elephant was a natural decision for me. My grandmother collects elephants and she passed on her adoration of the creature to me. I am enamored with their grace, their intelligence, and their might. But they\u2019re also proven to be afraid of mice. I think maybe for me coding was the mouse. I had no reason to be afraid of it, I\u2019m kinda smart, and figuring out how to work a code wasn\u2019t going to hurt me but it terrified me. The prospect of coding a system made me want to quit before I even started. But I\u2019ve made it work for me and I\u2019m proud of what it\u2019s going to be.<\/p>\n

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A little chaos never hurt nobody!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Learning to code this semester has been one hell of a journey. I\u2019m not that proud to say I\u2019ve cried about coding, but I have. There are witnesses. But it has been a worthy experience, and an important one.\u00a0 I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":7508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[257,292],"class_list":["post-7497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-from-code","tag-art-from-code-2","tag-system","wpcat-225-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7497"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14099,"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7497\/revisions\/14099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}