This repository contains the code and/or SVG files underlying the plotter drawings I made for #GENUARY2022. It also contains the tweeted texts, images, and videos (hence the ~1.2 GB repository size); notes.txt contains my ideas and notes.
Click here to view the Twitter thread.
All of this is not optimized, documented, or made elegant in any way (nor, in some cases, is it reproducible without additional information) – it's the generative art equivalent of a painter tossing their still-paint-laden-brushes and torn-up-sketches into a drawer after each painting.
| Day (Link to subfolder) |
Prompt (From genuary.art) |
Description | Tools |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Draw 10,000 of something. | Plotted a jagged line of 10000 segments representing the first 10000 numbers, with primes plotted using red pen. | JavaScript & Inkscape |
| 02 | Dithering. | Used concentric spirals with ever-increasing gaps to dither radial gradients. | JavaScript |
| 03 | Space. | Tiny solar system generator. | JavaScript |
| 04 | The next next Fidenza. | A typical UJI drawing. | UJI |
| 05 | Destroy a square. | Not much time on this day – so just a grid of ever-more-distorted squares. | JavaScript |
| 06 | Trade styles with a friend. | Imitated @KennoM's style of heavily processing UJI drawings using Drawing Bot V3. | UJI & Drawing Bot V3 |
| 07 | Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing. | Started out intending to draw a reproduction of Wall Drawing #462, ended up going down a slightly different path. | JavaScript |
| 08 | Single curve only. | Took a Heighway dragon curve, fiddled with the maths. | JavaScript |
| 09 | Architecture. | Bird nest box generator. | JavaScript |
| 10 | Machine learning, wrong answers only. | skipped | |
| 11 | No computer. | Went spelunking in my "leftover bits and bobs from IKEA furniture" drawer, found a screw, a washer, and something that sorta works as a nut, then clamped some paper in-between and attached the whole shebang to my drill, powered it up and held some pens in the general direction of the spinning paper. | Drill |
| 12 | Packing (squares, circles, any shape...). | A whole bunch of susuwatari. | JavaScript |
| 13 | 80x800. | Went for centimeters, not pixels – using special registration marks, plotted an "evolution" of squircles on corrugated cardboard. | JavaScript |
| 14 | Something you'd never make. | "an nft" | Inkscape |
| 15 | Sand. | Plotted, using a piece of wood in place of a pen, a simple wavy pattern on sandpaper. | UJI |
| 16 | Color gradients gone wrong. | Abstract figures. | JavaScript |
| 17 | 3 colors. | Progressively more-complete circles, squares, and triangles spirallying away from the middle. | UJI |
| 18 | VHS. | Drawings of VHS tapes with randomly-tangled tape having been pulled out. | JavaScript |
| 19 | Use text/typography. | AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. | JavaScript |
| 20 | Make a sea of shapes. | Colorful fish tessellations, loosely based on prior art. | JavaScript |
| 21 | Combine two (or more) of your pieces from previous days to make a new piece. | Really just another take on typography – rotating grids of symbols based on x and y position with a caption listing the symbols used. | JavaScript |
| 22 | Make something that will look completely different in a year. | Utilizing a steak thermometer to scratch a spiral into the surface of a bar of Ritter Sport chocolate, which has since been eaten. I wonder if a chocolate record could be manufactured this way? Alas, I lack playback equipment, so there's no strong impulse towards exploring this. | JavaScript |
| 23 | Abstract vegetation. | L-systems looking like shrubs, plotted using a green pen. | Observable & Inkscape |
| 24 | Create your own pseudo-random number generator and visually check the results. | Using sines and bitwise OR to generate interesting patterns – a simpler version of the PRNG used in the JavaScript framework built up throughout the month. | JavaScript |
| 25 | Perspective. | Elongated and distorted letters that spell out "PERSPECTIVE" when viewing the paper from an acute angle (a certain perspective) and otherwise look like an abstract take on two-point perspective. | Inkscape |
| 26 | Airport carpet. | skipped | |
| 27 | #2E294E #541388 #F1E9DA #FFD400 #D90368. | An UJI drawing on cream (roughly #F1E9DA) paper using pens approximating the other four colors. | UJI & Inkscape |
| 28 | Self portrait. | Yours truly as a one-and-a-half-year-old, but dithered using Drawing Bot V3, with the result taking the shape of a spiral. | Pixelmator Pro & Drawing Bot V3 |
| 29 | Isometric perspective. | Isometric cubes, their faces filled using arcs. One of my favorites this month. | JavaScript |
| 30 | Organic looking output using only rectangular shapes. | Moirè. | JavaScript |
| 31 | Negative space. | Drew a partially opaque spiral on an acetate sheet, with the center left transparent. | JavaScript |
You may use this repository's contents under the terms of the bespoke It's the MIT License Except You're Not Allowed to Make an NFT Unless You Use the Proceeds to Feed Birds & Send Me Pictures of Them license, see LICENSE.
(Note that day{19,21}/ReliefSingleLine-Regular.{svg,zip} are exempt from this, they were created by The Relief SingleLine Project Authors and are licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1, see here. Similarly, day23/l-systems-2.tgz is an offline copy of this Observable notebook by Kelley van Evert, the license doesn't apply to this archive's contents either. Finally, you're not allowed to turn the day28/ drawing of me as a baby into an NFT no matter how many birds you feed.)