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

http://www.ryojiikeda.com/project/testpattern/

Revisiting shapes and coordinates, introducing randomness

Inspiration from Ryoji Ikeda

Random

Introducing colour modes and variables

Inspiration from Josef Albers

Josef Albers

Color Modes

https://p5js.org/reference/#/p5/colorMode

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

width

mouseX

mouseY

more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnS0YNuLfQQ

Declaring a variable:

let variableName = 1234;

let anotherVariable = "Save this";

Use 'let' instead of 'var'

Why?

Assignment 2

• Create a geometric composition with a generative colour scheme