Thread by @camillerouxart

It's time to work on a new #genart project! Let's start with a simple starting idea et an ugly sketch as always🎉

The idea: starts with grid of points then add "local modifiers" that apply a simple rule around them.
The closer a point is, the more effect the rule has.

A lot of ideas to try...
- how to arrange the points and the modifiers at the start
- a looooot of rules :)
- modifier shape (point? circle? square?), weight...
- modifiers specific to a color ?
- how distance reduces the effect of the rule (r^2 like g?)

Does this inspire you?🤔

I've already some ideas for the modifiers effects/rules:
- attraction
- repulsion
- rotation
- random
- ...

Effect could depend of distance, cos(distance), angle, cos(angled), points color...
Here is an ugly exemple of attraction depending of angle.

As always, I love to chat with you about that and get your feedbacks. I'll share my drafts/sketches/fails/research... 😊
I don't know where I'm going at all! But it's going to be fun to see how to have something nice with that idea together! Ready? 🔥

Let's start with a square of dots... Yes that's ugly 🤣
Should the position or color be random? I've now idea... Let's code the first local modifier and see what's happening :)

And, as always, I get unexpected results 🤣
I wanted to implement basic attraction at the center... There is still a bug! 🪳

Ho, I had a bug with attraction, force was to strong at proximity of the modifier. I've to find a way to manage that!
Here an exemple with 5 very simple repulsive modifiers! That starts to be interesting 🔥

Same exemple (5 modifiers) but force direction depends of a modulo of the angle between dot and modifier

Now force depends of cos(dist/a) and dist 🔥

Same exemple but with colors and more extreme values.
What do you think I should try now? 😊

Still same modifiers positions, but new rule...
What's your favorite result for now?

Other rule 🔥
Too symetric? too Kaleidoscope-like?

Same idea, but tracing lines between each dot and its original position. (idea from @nudoru 🙏)
I like this idea, because dots version was probably too similar to Murmurations series. What do you think about ? 😊

The longer the line, the thicker it is.
I can display more lines using that tips. Moreover, it's easier to know where watch.
Do you think I should continue to play with that idea?

(360k lines on the last one!)

Try color again: Color depends of line length (Peafowl style right? 😀)
Note sure of that idea. A lot of color combinaisons do not work well...

I removed too long lines and make force depend of dist^0.6 now.
It starts to look to a symetric flowfield in fur🔥

Trying again some rules I tested before. I start to like that 🚀
Dot position is random and helps a lot to have a very organic aspect.

The same with color depending of the orientation (heading) of the line.
It doesn't work that bad with other rules (2 last pictures). Maybe a good way to apply color?

Trying to add random on local disrupter positions except the centered one (each test has more random than previous)
(idea from @0xm4tt1a 🙏)

The same idea can be applied to other rules too
It's a good thing to break symetry

The more dots are far from center, the more their positions is random

Trying with more lines, 2-3 colors, and small white dots at the end of the lines.
An other try with margin

Same options but other modifier rules

new rule

same but colors depend of position. Interesting?

Try with only one modifier at the center

Perlin Noise is working well too :)

Other try

Pivot: fur with blood 🩸🩸🩸

It's time to have a break! 🤣

Now I've a little bug... point() weight does not seem to be linear... We can clearly see some steps
I'm using the same weight on lines and it looks OK and still visible when I display both

Ok, I've avoid one step using ellipse() instead.
But rect() seems to be better, so I'll rect()! (already used it for drawing dots of murmurations)

And now, it looks perfect! 🎉

Unexpected result time!!! 🤣

And an other one!
I have to manage the points too close to the modifiers when I apply a repulsion rule

Here we go! bug fixed!
Let me show you some geometric fur! 🔥🔥🔥

I'll have to find the good number of points and the line weight
number of points per side in the following exemples: 700, 400, 200 (I tried to adjust weight to look quite the same).
What direction should I take?

I'm more happy with the texture.
I'm going to explore
- colors (different rules to set them, bicolor palette...)
- modifiers positions and rules (currently, I set position manually and all modifiers have the same rules and same params, it could be fun to mix some rules)
(1/2)

- point distributions (currently, points are randomly set in a square with margin, but I could not to do a regular distribution, or also do other shapes...)
- modifier shape (for now, they are points, but I could make them be circles, lines, polygons...)
(2/2)

Some new rules:
-random
- cos(x+y)
- Perlin noise
- cos (angle + dist)

And now, I refactored the code so it'll be easy to write a LOOOT more :)

Still playing with random, because it can look great.
Good direction? 🤔

Trying modulos

(first outputs are made with less points to speed up rendering)

modulos on angle (heading)

New funny unexpected result ! (and the expected one)

Playing with some new rules

Tips: Never forget to test extreme values 🔥🔥🔥

What to you want me to work on now?

Same palettes, but using less colors and doing gradients. (idea from @0xm4tt1a)
Do you like that?

B&W with and without gradient 🔥
I think it's better without since, line weight is already doing a gradient effect :)

I also tried replacing white with other colors too (2 last). It looks maybe too simple right? Gradient versions are better than these I think

What's your favorite option for colors?

Trying some other palettes🤔🤔🤔
Good idea?

New tests 🔥🔥🔥
Will it be my first project with a different palette? Let me know!!
Which palettes do you prefer?

What do you think of that version? (black bg idea is from @0xm4tt1a 🙏)

Ok, I hesitated to integrate these types of variations but you're a lot to love them, so I keep them and I'll make them quite common :)

GM!

GM! I continue to work on the project. After trying lots of palettes on friday and start to select some, today, I'm going to try layouts : triptic, circles... and any other interesting we'll have.
As always, feedbacks are always welcome.

First test

To do that, I had to reimplement how I set the position of each dots. For now, they was randomly set to a position in the image (except margin). Now, they are on a grid and I add some random on the position.
Here are some examples with none, a few, more... random on position.

The more divisions there are, the smaller the margins should be...
Do you like divisions? Should I keep them? I like them 😊

Is that still great or too much ?
I think I like it. I like to see squares deformed with the rules :)

Others tests (with the same modifiers). Which one do you like?
I think I want to keep only 2 and 4

I love 2 and 3. I think 4 works too. Not sure about 1 🤔
What do you think about ?

Test with circle layout. ⚫️
I think it's working pretty well too, right? 🔥

Tested triangle but it doesn't work because it doesn't fill space enough. Square and circle are probably enough for now:)
Let's work on modifiers positions, it'll change design a lot!

Trying an idea of @GenerativePen
Is this look great? 😊 Which one are your favorites?

Other example.
Not sure when they are to much divisions, but basics look great for me :) OK to keep that?

now testing some modifiers layout, always with same rule. I added red points at center to see them easily.
First at all Random !! I like it!

It work well even with very few modifiers.
Implemented and validated ✅ I'll keep it!

2sd test: grids

implemented and Validated ✅

3rd test: 'interval' grid

Implemented and Validated ✅

4st test: grid + random
0%, 5%, 10%

I love that! ✅

Some examples without debug mode with random values.
I thing we did a big step for entropy today. Thank you for your help 😍