Blog-02 Generative Art

The piece I’ve examined in the noise series by Holger Lippmann. The first part
of the series, Holger uses landscape photos in his vicinity to generate digital
paintings composed of elongated shapes. What I admire about the piece is
the strategic generative composition that has allowed the rectangular shapes to
mimic textures that of a brushstroke, which gives the painting a vintage feeling
and a sense of movement throughout the canvas. Further, the layering of the
different colors of the geometry and the control of the density of the geometry
creates an illusion of color blending, which I believe has made the painting much
more interesting than if it was just one layer.

What I suppose the algorithm would be the program repeatedly draws the same
elongated rectangle and each geometry would have a small variation in the
start and end coordinates than the previous points to create a continuous
curvature through the straight geometric shapes. The color of the shapes would
be detected from the image itself with minor variations in the RGB value by
around 10-15 to create a variation that would further help simulate the brush
stroke texture.

The artist has taken inspiration from 20th-century impressionist painters such
as Monet and Van Gogh, where from close, the viewer can observe the stacks of
geometry like in paintings one would see the brush stroke but backed up, a
the scenic landscape is formed

Noise Series: http://www.lumicon.de/wp/?p=3623