Analyze

Tasks:

• Describe it in your own words.
• Include images.
• Explain the concept/inspiration.
• Explain (or suggest) the technology used to produce it.
• Explain coding tools/techniques used to produce it.
• Explain any safety/security measures that had to be put in place.
• Propose a project,based on the work , that you could produce.
• Start designing / creating a prototype.

 

• Description + Images

I picked  Tom Betts site from the first second I’ve opened it because it is about graphic/visual arts .Tom  is partial-academic with a Phd in “video games and sublime” . He use technology to give another meaning to sublime , that breath taking piece of art , he tried to do with codes .Tom used to be a musician then he self taught to be a programmer who makes GAMES that generally feature procedural generation or generative art.

 

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•  The concept/inspiration

Tom called the snowflakes concept : “Sets of polygons rasterized into texture data using Rotational & reflective symmetry to make Snowflakes/flowers.”

 

• Technology used to produce it

As the artist doesn’t say anything about the technology that creates the code for the snowflakes I will presume that he used a computer to create the snowflakes.

• Coding tools/techniques used to produce it

I think he used a programming languages like Java or CSS to write the code which create the snowflakes .

 

• Safety/security measures that had to be put in place.

There are not so many threatens because the environment is online and the only risk he can take is the page to be cloned / hacked .

 

• A project that I could produce :

I am thinking to produce the snowflake project because it would be a challenge just to create it , then I would like to offer to the snowflakes couple of interactive form that will transform it each click/etc.

 

• Design

I have research some snowflakes codes then I tried to write my own with an example ….first try will look like this :

 

 

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After I understood and adapted a bit the code I managed to get it to the version where shows some snowflakes but they are picked by me .

 

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The final version of the code will be a lot simplified and will make each click to generate a new snowflake !

 

snowflake code

 

Evaluation :

At this moment I am really happy with the work I’ve done and I think it has a good looking . I think it might be improved but that would require a more advanced technique of coding to create an fully random pattern of snowflakes to look at a decent level .