Joanne Lee – Project 09

Project 09

// Joanne Lee
// Section C
// joannele@andrew.cmu.edu
// Project-09

var christine;

function preload() {
    var myImageURL = "https://i.imgur.com/beoY7rv.jpg"; // load image
    christine = loadImage(myImageURL);
}

function setup() {
    createCanvas(480, 480);
    background(0);
    christine.loadPixels();
    frameRate(50000000);
}

function draw() {
    var px = random(width);
    var py = random(height);
    var ix = constrain(floor(px), 0, width-1);
    var iy = constrain(floor(py), 0, height-1);
    var rx = px + random(0,6); // randomize line x-value
    var ry = py + random(0,4); // randomize line y-value
    var rs = random(1,4); // randomize stroke weight
    var theColorAtLocationXY = christine.get(ix, iy);

    strokeWeight(rs);
    stroke(theColorAtLocationXY);
    line(px,py,rx,ry);
}

I chose a photo of my gorgeous current roommate (although the style of the photo made it hard to really capture her eyes!). I knew I wanted to do lines in order to emulate “strokes” and to further emulate this, I tried to vary the stroke weights as well as direction and lengths of the line. I didn’t want to make the line extend too far in order to ensure that facial features could moderately be made out.

I very much admire impressionist type paintings and so I tried to emulate thicker brush strokes. I made the frame rate ‘50000000’ because I preferred to see the photo render quickly. Below are photos further in to rendering and near completion.