Computer Generated Art
I came up with a way to algorithmically generate "power law" images. Power laws show up everywhere in nature, including but not limited to; clouds, coastlines/topography, occurrence of natural disasters, the stock market, and the internet. A power law is considered to have a frequency power spectrum proportional to 1/f^alpha, where the alpha variable is the slope of the power spectrum in log-log space. In addition I generate a random color scheme using another algorithm I developed.
These images are completely randomly generated, and I picked a few of the more aesthetically pleasing ones to share. Some of them look as if you could even see the artist's brushstrokes.
Definitely some people will dismiss this as not art because it does not accurately recreate real life situations such as an ant crawling up a dogs nose, and I will admit this is quite abstract. However, this is just the tip of the iceberg, and there are surely more permutations and improvements to be made.
I really think (and have made) some of these pictures the perfect Windows(TM) wallpaper. They are modern, artistic, and soothing to the senses due to their natural mathematical basis.
You can click on the picture for the full sized image, and then right click to download into your Windows(TM) folder. After that right click on your desktop background and select properties (or personalize in Vista). Select the image of choice and checkbox the "stretch image" option. Though these images are tileable (another neat feature), they still have a border around them so they don't quite look right if you do so.
Though I don't want to sway the artistic interpretation of viewers, as some people do, I will give names to all of the creations.
Green River
Crowded
Purple
Granite
Flag
Abyss
Venusian Dawn
Balance
Forest Fire
Lightsaber
Fun
Chess
Clouds
Who's Your Daddy?
Bamboo
Spectrum
Island
Dichotomy
70's
Bleeding
Rebel
What Are You Looking At?
A Silver Lining
Venusian Waves
Armageddon
A Fly Crawling Up a Fly's Nose
Alpha/Omega Reunion
I came up with a way to algorithmically generate "power law" images. Power laws show up everywhere in nature, including but not limited to; clouds, coastlines/topography, occurrence of natural disasters, the stock market, and the internet. A power law is considered to have a frequency power spectrum proportional to 1/f^alpha, where the alpha variable is the slope of the power spectrum in log-log space. In addition I generate a random color scheme using another algorithm I developed.
These images are completely randomly generated, and I picked a few of the more aesthetically pleasing ones to share. Some of them look as if you could even see the artist's brushstrokes.
Definitely some people will dismiss this as not art because it does not accurately recreate real life situations such as an ant crawling up a dogs nose, and I will admit this is quite abstract. However, this is just the tip of the iceberg, and there are surely more permutations and improvements to be made.
I really think (and have made) some of these pictures the perfect Windows(TM) wallpaper. They are modern, artistic, and soothing to the senses due to their natural mathematical basis.
You can click on the picture for the full sized image, and then right click to download into your Windows(TM) folder. After that right click on your desktop background and select properties (or personalize in Vista). Select the image of choice and checkbox the "stretch image" option. Though these images are tileable (another neat feature), they still have a border around them so they don't quite look right if you do so.
Though I don't want to sway the artistic interpretation of viewers, as some people do, I will give names to all of the creations.
Green River
Crowded
Purple
Granite
Flag
Abyss
Venusian Dawn
Balance
Forest Fire
Lightsaber
Fun
Chess
Clouds
Who's Your Daddy?
Bamboo
Spectrum
Island
Dichotomy
70's
Bleeding
Rebel
What Are You Looking At?
A Silver Lining
Venusian Waves
Armageddon
A Fly Crawling Up a Fly's Nose
Alpha/Omega Reunion
posted by AlexanderTheGreat at 7:37 PM
6 Comments:
Wish I knew what you were talking about! At any rate, they are mostly very pretty.
I think those are really cool. It's too bad they can't be printed in some way where they wouldn't lose the integrity of their color. Anyway, very neat!
(And you didn't provide instructions for Mac users, you PC-snob ;). )
Thank you and:
65: It is extremely simple math and easy to understand. Once you "know" it is easy like learning anything else.
SM: Can download and print like anything else if you have a color printer. (sorry Mac person, but sure you can figure it out, since you are all smarter than us anyway)
Amazing
Absolutely amazing
in this case, there is much to be appreciated about an ant crawling up a dogs (sic) nose.
I guess the last word is best dad.
It is up to you to guess if you are the ant or the nose?
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