Jai Sawkar – Project 9 – Computational Portrait

Sketch

//Jai Sawkar
//jsawkar
//Project 9: Portrait
//Section C
 
function preload() {
    var imgURL = "https://i.imgur.com/4e3vWfI.jpg?1" //image of jaclny & sophia
    bImage = loadImage(imgURL); 
}

function setup() {
    createCanvas(480, 480);
    background('black')
    bImage.loadPixels(); //loads pixels from image
    frameRate(1000000); //speed of picture
}

function draw() {
    var px = random(width);
    var py = random(height);

    var sx = random(0, 240); //'sophia' on X axis
    var sy = random(height); //'sophia' on Y axis

    var jx = random(240, 480); //'jac' on X axis
    var jy = random(height); //'jac' on y axis


    ////ix & iy calulates the closest int value that is less than or equal to the value of the parameter for the pixels
   
    var ix = constrain(floor(px), 0, width - 1); 
    var iy = constrain(floor(py), 0, height - 1);


    var colXY = bImage.get(ix, iy); //determines color based on x & y pixels of image

    noStroke(); 
    fill(colXY); //fill based on x & y pixels of image
    ellipse(px, py, 5);

    textFont('FUTURA');
    textSize(2);
    text("Sophia", sx, sy) //randomly prints Sophia on Sophia's side of Canvas
    textSize(3);
    text("Jac", jx, jy) //randomly prints Jac on Jaclyn's side of Canvas

}

For this project, I used a picture I took 2 years ago of two of my best friends, Jaclyn & Sophia. Along with having the picture generated with dots, I wanted some aspect of it to be more personalized as well, so I split the canvas to allow their names to make up the picture on their side of the canvas. Below are two screenshots of the process, and the original photo as well!