Patrick Matte » Generative Art http://www.patrickmatte.com Flash programming, animation and design. Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:41:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Reproducing the Labuat brushstroke effect… http://www.patrickmatte.com/index.php/2010/03/04/reproducing-the-labuat-brushstroke-effect/ http://www.patrickmatte.com/index.php/2010/03/04/reproducing-the-labuat-brushstroke-effect/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:40:29 +0000 Patrick Matte http://www.patrickmatte.com/?p=121 This week i had a stint at trying to reproduce the brushstroke effect as seen on the famous labuat website, winner of the FWA’s 2009 people’s choice award. The tricky part was getting that same smoothness in the curves but i’m pretty happy with the results i got so far. For kicks, i also added some animation and velocity to the brushstroke.

Brushstroke with velocity

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Labuat brushstroke

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It was a nice continuation from the previous work i did on the 25 lines of code contest. I’m gonna thinker a little bit more with the code and post more advanced experiments later on.

]]> http://www.patrickmatte.com/index.php/2010/03/04/reproducing-the-labuat-brushstroke-effect/feed/ 7 Some generative art for our “25 lines of code” contest at TBWA\Chiat\Day. I won at unanimity! http://www.patrickmatte.com/index.php/2009/07/25/i-won-the-25-lines-of-code-contest/ http://www.patrickmatte.com/index.php/2009/07/25/i-won-the-25-lines-of-code-contest/#comments Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:44:35 +0000 Patrick Matte http://www.patrickmatte.com/?p=57 The rules of the contest were simple, create the most awesome program in just 25 lines of code. The timing was pefect for me as i wasn’t too busy for the last two days before the deadline and i was able to work on a few entries.

My 25 lines of code winning entry

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This one nailed it. I’m still surprised how many things i was able to cram into 25 lines! I have a 3D engine in there that converts 3D points to 2D points in 3 lines of code! And the routine also changes the color of the lines, records arrays of points to create the trails that gets thinner as time increases. Also notice the velocity on each point that make the trail move along.

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I’m definitely happy with the first one but there’s another entry that i did which i also like.

Another entry in the contest

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For that one I got the inspiration from a demo i saw last week, and i thought to myself, “hey i can do this in 25 lines of code” so i did it. Some images it creates look a lot like those spacy tracy desktop backgrounds of Windows Vista and OSX.

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