Sure you can use #StableDiffusion AI to make pictures of pretty people, monsters, fantastic landscapes, etc., but I've discovered that I really enjoy transforming my abstract #KoruTawa pieces. Usually into artwork of a different medium, but sometimes into landscapes, structures, or whatever I can see in it. It all depends on the forms, colors, and scale of things. I've found quite a few interesting things. I did this one just tonight, and I spent way too long on the alt text on these. Oh well.

Here are the original #KoruTawa outputs for reference. It may be interesting to print the stencil with the positive space being the koru. This would require more plastic, but less paint. I could also do both, and have two different colors. this could allow for some mixing of colors as well.

For the #WCCChallenge, "single hue", I generated some #KoruTawa outputs, and found one that would work well for a 3D printed block print. I ended up making some paintings using a stencil instead to keep things simple. I manually modified the 3D model output in #blender to make the stencil, and used some green gouache on watercolor paper. I tested different dilutions, and got some fun results. It's fun playing with physical media every so often. I'll have other ideas to try with this technique.

Is this white forms on a black background, or black forms on a white background? Both?

I'm experimenting with alt text here, since I learned of the main purpose behind it. Aside from the accessibility aid, it's a good exercise for me to describe my work more thoroughly. Does anyone here find alt text helpful or necessary? I understand the benefit when applied to images of 3D forms, textures, and other tactile things, but it seems trickier for abstract visuals.

#KoruTawa #b3d #python #GenArt

#genuary 2023 #genuary30
#blender #python #GenArt
prompt: Minimalism

In addition to the p5.js sketch, I also generated several minimalist variations with my #KoruTawa project. In this format, they tend to look much more like the works of Gordon Walters and Marian Maguire that I used to derive a lot of the pattern and composition rules. There are still so many more that I could work out, but the code is already incredibly long and complex. Here's the first half of the images.

#genuary 2023 #genuary29

I explored the topic of maximalism using my #KoruTawa project (created in #blender3d and using #python scripts), with maximum color and shape complexity probability factors, and a large format. I compiled a set of twenty six model outputs, each transitioning from the sparser back view to the more full front view. I added a song that I improvised a year ago on my Minilogue xd and Typhon synths. The resulting video was too big to post here.

https://youtu.be/5AE8zPOKRhA

#genuary 2023 #genuary25 #blender #python
prompt: Yayoi Kusama

When I was traveling in New Zealand in 2009, I saw two exhibitions that had a profound impact on me; those of the late Gordon Walters and of Yayoi Kusama. 12 years later I began my #KoruTawa project, primarily inspired by Walters' Koru series, but also with variations involving dots like in Kusama's works. Here I took the 3D model of one output and used a physics sim to create an homage to Yayoi's seminal Narcissus Garden work.

#genuary 2023 #genuary20 #blender3d
prompt: Art Deco

I went on a bike ride this afternoon and also went deep into researching the topic, so since I didn't have the time or energy left for a lot of coding, I opted to dust off my #KoruTawa project. I locked down a lot of parameters and it produced several outputs that I felt fit the aesthetic well enough. I started this project in late fall 2021, and have worked on it periodically since then. It is based on Gordon Walters' koru series.