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Recreating The Past
Week 1: Vera Molnár
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It may take a life-time to develop a computer program to make one new communicating pen line which is meaningful for us.
— Computer Grass is Natural Grass by Colette S. Bangert and Charles J. Bangert
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- Notes
- Source: Vera Molnar, artist proof; Signed “V. Molnar / 73” on front, “MIKΡOKOΣMOΣ / epreuve d’artiste, c-5 II” inscribed on verso.
- Original artwork combines structure with randomness
- There appears to be a 1,2,4 column layout governing the vertical rhythm
- Perlin noise applied to the length varition as we render from top to bottom
- A lot of manual parameter tweaking until the dense-sparse-dense-empty-dense-sparse-dense rhythm felt right
- Vibe coded a tool to extract color palette from any image