January 1, 2022
Draw 10,000 of something.
![genuary](./static/art/genuary2022/01.gif)
Let a thousand flowers bloom. 10,000 circles.
January 2, 2022
Dithering.
![genuary](./static/art/genuary2022/02.png)
My sketchbook --> GAN --> re-rendered and re-colored --> down to 2 bits per pixel.
January 3, 2022
Space.
January 4, 2022
The next next Fidenza.
![genuary](./static/art/genuary2022/04.gif)
I went with a mix of
two classical pieces in generative art to cover the two 'nexts', and then made it wide instead of tall for good measure :)
January 5, 2022
Destroy a square.
January 7, 2022
Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing.
![genuary](./static/art/genuary2022/07.gif)
One of my early explorations in 2018 was re-creating
this Sol LeWitt :) Here they are in many colors, and even in multiple colors (I probably wouldn't use some of these palettes now...)
January 8, 2022
Single curve only.
![genuary](./static/art/genuary2022/08.gif)
Single curve only. Or four of them :) This is another exploration from a while ago. I still like it quite a bit! I even had these (suns? flowers?) dance in sync with music at one point :)
January 9, 2022
Architecture.
January 10, 2022
Machine learning, wrong answers only.
![genuary](./static/art/genuary2022/10.jpeg)
Took it a bit literally and used it as a prompt for a text to image generation model :) Some style transfer and super-resolution gymnastics later...
January 11, 2022
No computer.
![genuary](./static/art/genuary2022/11.jpeg)
I was in India and had my whole family participate in this one! We made (step 1 of) 3x3
Cushions, flipping a coin as the source of randomness :)
January 12, 2022
Packing (squares, circles, any shape…)
![genuary](./static/art/genuary2022/12.gif)
Another throwback to 2018 :)
January 13, 2022
800x80.
January 14, 2022
Something you’d never make.
January 15, 2022
Sand.
January 16, 2022
Color gradients gone wrong.
![genuary](./static/art/genuary2022/16.png)
Our perception of gradients is going wrong. Both circles are the exact same color/shade!
January 17, 2022
3 colors.
![genuary](./static/art/genuary2022/17.gif)
The primary ones!
January 18, 2022
VHS.
January 19, 2022
Use text/typography.
![genuary](./static/art/genuary2022/19.png)
Trained a GAN on the Gujarati alphabet. Found a generation that could actually be a character! The second image is how I would write it if it were :) How would one pronounce it?
January 20, 2022
Make a sea of shapes.
January 21, 2022
Combine two (or more) of your pieces from previous days to make a new piece.
![genuary](./static/art/genuary2022/21.gif)
Combining 'Space', 'Architecture', and 'VHS'.
January 22, 2022
Make something that will look completely different in a year.
![genuary](./static/art/genuary2022/22.png)
Left: A piece using a hash derived from "2022". Right: A piece from the same system using a hash derived from "in a year" and "2023".
January 23, 2022
Abstract vegetation.
![genuary](./static/art/genuary2022/23.png)
Computer vision colleagues: Scale-invariant blob detection anyone? :)
January 24, 2022
Create your own pseudo-random number generator and visually check the results.
![genuary](./static/art/genuary2022/24.png)
128-bit LFSR (linear-feedback shift register) PRNG (pseudo random number generator) in MATLAB! Shown in red. Black is MATLAB's random number generator. Generated 1000 random integers between 0 and 15 a hundred times. Plotted their histogram (left), and histogram of differences between consecutive generations (right). The red dots being within the range of the grey ones means it is not bad :) The red dots having no variance means there is, indeed, no other source of randomness :)
January 25, 2022
Perspective.
![genuary](./static/art/genuary2022/25.gif)
Take some detours. Gain more perspectives.
January 27, 2022
#2E294E #541388 #F1E9DA #FFD400 #D90368
January 28, 2022
Self portrait.
January 29, 2022
Isometric perspective.
![genuary](./static/art/genuary2022/29.gif)
Inspired by how
Abhishek Das draws cuboids in 2D in his
fxhash Towers. Some of these remind me of chess pieces :)
January 30, 2022
Organic looking output using only rectangular shapes.
January 31, 2022
Negative space.
![genuary](./static/art/genuary2022/31.gif)
Ending #genuary2022 with another throwback to 2018.