Day 64 - Sue

This week I’m creating sketches based on the work of women who helped establish the generative art craft. Today I’m paying homage to Sue Gollifer (b. 1944). Sue is an artist and academic, and an early pioneer of new media art. Her work is in both national and international public and private collections and she’s won numerous awards. I love Sue’s use of geometry and space, and the optical illusions her work creates. I haven’t nailed how to work with 3D in p5js so played around instead with a morphing patterned sketch, with colour and composition inspired by Sue’s work.

Sketch:

https://editor.p5js.org/chelseamwatson/present/zxUWMUZ9a

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Drawings:

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Code:

function setup() {
  createCanvas(820, 820);
  colorMode(HSB);
  noStroke();
  frameRate(5);
  background(12, 60, 100);

}

function draw() {

  for (var x = 65; x < width - 50; x = x + 50) {
    for (var y = 65; y < height - 50; y = y + 50) {
      fill(219, 50, 40 + ((x + y) / 20));
      ellipse(x, y, 10 + (x / 50 - frameCount),10 + (y / 50 - frameCount));
    }
  }
}

function keyReleased() {
  if (key == '1') {
    noLoop();
  }
  if (key == '2') {
    loop();
  }
}

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