Necesito para estar sentado, un arbolito en este descampado (Desarraigo, Extremoduro) From time to time I come back to experiment with this stunning photograph of Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster. I have done several of them previously: from decomposing it into Voronoi regions, to draw it as a single line portrait using an algorithm to| Fronkonstin
He himself could hear the harmony of the Universe, and understood the music of the spheres, and the stars which move in concert with them, and which we cannot hear because of the limitations of our weak nature (Porphyry, Life of Pythagoras) I love legends. The life of Pythagoras is riddled with them: from the … Continue reading The Music of the Spheres→ The post The Music of the Spheres first appeared on Fronkonstin.| Fronkonstin
The Moonies are up on their mountain, the lunatics have taken over the asylum, waiting on the rapture (The Daily Mail, Radiohead) I have not write any post lately, maybe because I have been quite busy with other unexpected project or maybe because I am going through a deep creative crisis. Whatever the reason, I … Continue reading The Mondrianomies→ The post The Mondrianomies first appeared on Fronkonstin.| Fronkonstin
On candy stripe legs the Spiderman comes, softly through the shadow of the evening sun (Lullaby, The Cure) Cellular automata are an inmense source of artistical images. Today, I experimented with Cyclic automata, which are ruled with these simple rules: Create a grid of cells. Give a state to each cell randomly; states a numbers … Continue reading Neighborhoods: Experimenting with Cyclic Cellular Automata→ The post Neighborhoods: Experimenting with Cyclic Cellular Automata first appeared ...| Fronkonstin
Spinning on that dizzy edge (Just Like Heaven, The Cure) This post talks about a generative system called Physarum model, which simulates the evolution of a colony of extremely simple organisms that, under certain environmental conditions, result into complex behaviors. Apart from the scientific interest of the topic, this model produce impressive images like this … Continue reading Abstractions→ The post Abstractions first appeared on Fronkonstin.| Fronkonstin
Moça do corpo douradoDo Sol de IpanemaO seu balançadoÉ mais que um poema(Garota de Ipanema, João Gilberto) Sometimes I think about the reasons why I spend so many time doing experiments and writing my discoveries in a blog. Even although the main reason to start this blog was some kind of vanity, today I have … Continue reading Watercolors→ The post Watercolors first appeared on Fronkonstin.| Fronkonstin
Ooh, see the fire is sweepin’Our very street todayBurns like a red coal carpetMad bull lost its way(Gimme Shelter, The Rolling Stones) After following this easy tutorial, you will be able to create tiled images from a photograph. You may want to use your own portrait or some other as I did. I use geom_tile: … Continue reading Monsters→ The post Monsters first appeared on Fronkonstin.| Fronkonstin
Sin patria ni banderas, ahora vivo a mi manera; y es que me siento extranjero fuera de tus agujeros (Tercer movimiento: Lo de dentro, Extremoduro) The technique I experimented with in this post is an endless source to obtain amazing images. It is called reaction-diffusion and simulates the evolution of a system where several substances … Continue reading Reaction Diffusion→ The post Reaction Diffusion first appeared on Fronkonstin.| Fronkonstin
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty (Bertrand Russell) You have a pentagon defined by its five vertex. Now, follow these steps: Step 0: take a point inside the pentagon (it can be its center if you want to do it easy). Keep this point in a safe place. Step 1: choose … Continue reading The Chaos Game: an experiment about fractals, recursivity and creative coding→ The post The Chaos Game: an experiment about fractals, recursivity and creative coding fir...| Fronkonstin
Y otra vez me arranco despacito, al sentir que nada necesito (Locura transitoria, Extremoduro) One of my favorite sites in the Internet is algorithmic botany . It’s always a source of inspiration for me. I recently discovered there the space colonization algorithm, concretely in this paper. Originally, the algorithm was developed to simulate leaf venation … Continue reading Colonizing Franky→ The post Colonizing Franky first appeared on Fronkonstin.| Fronkonstin