Experiments with Generative Art

I never knew how many programs were out on the internet that people could create with before taking the Digital Art class that I am in now. One of these programs is scribbler.  For my first attempt at using this program, I drew some basic shapes--triangle, circle and square. I found it a little difficult to draw exactly since I had never used this before. I chose settings for the color, line transparency, line thickness and scribbliness. Here is my result:

My next experiment was to draw a star and see what happened with that.

After that I decided to draw a line that curved back and forth and see what was generated by that. I set the transparency at 50, thickness at 5 and scribbliness at 65, which I wrote on the bottom after generating this result.

Then next program that I tried was Scribbler Too.  This is an improvement on the original scribbler which has many more options to set. Here is a screen shot of the options that can be set in Scribbler Too. It also allows uploading an image that you can trace and then save the results that will not include the original image that was used for tracing. So I found a picture of a cat on a kid's coloring page on the web and used that. My first picture using that is below the screen shot of the settings.



I decided to try it again with different settings. I also changed colors for the nose and eyes. There are many possible ways to work on the same subject.

Next I attempted to make something that would appear to have volume. I didn't think this first attempt quite got it.

This one seems more successful to me. It also has a transparent background, although you can't tell it here.

The next program that I experimented with was Flame. The first picture here I think represents love because of the colors with the pink, red and white. Also with the yellow which seems to me to be a happy color.

Next I made one that looked something like a bird to me, so I added a foot to it.

Then I drew a bird on the canvas, but I don't think it looks nearly as interesting as the one above.

I also attempted making some flowers:

The last picture here using flame represents excitement to me, because of the bursts of lighter color on the black background.

I made another picture in Scribbler Too, using a famous work of art to draw on. I call this one Persistent Scribbler.

I enjoyed playing with these programs. If you haven't used them already, check them out.