Programming for Visual Artists
ARTS-A0701 – Digital Art 1
2024 - Lecture 2
Today
- Revisiting shapes and coordinates, introducing randomness
- Introducing colour modes and variables
Artworks
Revisiting shapes and coordinates, introducing randomness
Inspiration from Ryoji Ikeda
Random
Introducing colour modes and variables
Inspiration from Josef Albers
Josef Albers
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/media-p.slid.es/uploads/1244600/images/8306257/Screenshot_2021-03-04_at_15.16.23.png)
Color Modes
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/media-p.slid.es/uploads/1244600/images/8310797/Screenshot_2021-03-05_at_15.36.37.png)
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/media-p.slid.es/uploads/1244600/images/8310787/pasted-from-clipboard.png)
HSV_color_solid_cylinder.png: SharkDderivative work: SharkD Talk, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Variables
p5 has predefined variables we already used
Declaring a variable:
let variableName = 1234;
let anotherVariable = "Save this";
Use 'let' instead of 'var'
Assignment 2
- Create a geometric composition with a generative colour scheme