I'm sitting over an exhibition today so I decided to spend the day
trying to emulate brush strokes in processing to make the time pass
quicker:
void setup()
{
size(800, 800);
background(255);
}
void draw()
{
noFill();
smooth();
float color1 = random(10)+140;
float color2 = random(200);
float color3 = random(20);
float startpx = random(width);
float startpy = random(height);
float endpx = random(width);
float endpy = random(height);
float n = random(width);
float ny = random(height);
float curve1 = random(width);
float curve2 = random(height);
float curve3 = random(width);
float curve4 = random(height);
for(int i = 1; i < 100; i++)
{
float yoff = random(20);
float colora = random(50);
stroke(color1, color2, color3, colora+80);
strokeWeight(random(5));
bezier(startpx+i, startpy*0.5+yoff, curve1, curve2, curve3,
curve4, endpx+i, endpy+yoff);
}
}
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:51 PM, James Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
> my job is mundane, repetitive, and i can perform it on auto-pilot for the
> most part; it requires very little thought.
>
> at work, half an hour can sometimes seem like a very long time.
>
> my hobby, currently computer programming, is full of problems to solve,
> things to build; it is demanding of various mental faculties.
>
> while programming, an hour flies by.
>
> at work yesterday, faced with performing the same task over and over again
> every half a minute or so, for eight hours, i wondered how could i put
> this time to use more satisfying use?
>
> how could i be at once performing the task it is my job to do, while at
> the same time, be involved in something that i would find useful for when
> i got home and resumed computer programming?
>
> unsurprisingly, yesterday was not the first time i wondered such things,
> but interestingly (for me at least) i did realize some of the
> implications.
>
> for some reason, i've always imagined that there should be some kind of
> visual way of thinking which i literally see in my mind, thoughts
> represented as shapes/forms and colours, and when hearing of people who
> have photographic memories, or people who see numbers as various coloured
> shapes, etc, etc, i end up with the impression my mind's eye is blind.
>
> so i've often wondered if it is possible to build such a way of thinking,
> and this was what my previous obsessive hobby (and university degree) -
> painting - was all about, but of course i never succeeded (in building
> this, and career wise), but the idea still has allure.
>
> so yesterday while wondering how i could make better use of the time spent
> at work - which is doing almost nothing which interests me - i imagined
> that another part of me would be immersed in some kind of _productive_
> abstract-visual world of thought (ie not just day dreaming).
>
> for the first time the obvious problem suddenly occurred to me: how
> important it is that i can use my eyes to see what i am doing, (((thus the
> need of my brain to be processing the visual information my eyes receive
> from the real world))).
>
> this suggested a quite substantial split in my consciousness. one part of
> me, primarily located in the world of matter, my body, would be working,
> and only the smallest part of my consciousness required to perform the job
> would be needed here - i suspect not a lot.
>
> this would allow the larger part of my consciousness to be focused on the
> stuff which actually interests me and motivates me into producing.
>
>
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