Generating Art
I’m not a strong visual artist, but recently I needed to create a 2560x1440 image as a banner for my new Youtube channel. I decided it was best to try and program it rather than draw anything by hand.
My basic idea was to generate a pattern, then draw it many times with very low opacity, and move the key vertices very slightly on each drawing pass. These are generated using Javascript drawing to a HTML canvas.
Here are 3 variations on a simple triangulated mesh.
Code can be found in this gist. The script was hacked together quickly, it has rough edges.
I love abstract desktop backgrounds and I think I’ll continue to play with this idea for generating backgrounds.