Looks great, maybe you could have used smaller dots for more detail, but think you capture the scene very well. Great Job!
I really liked the brushstroke effect on your artwork! It does look very much like a real impressionist painting and kept a lot of the details of the original photograph (ex: the sun rays). I thought your code was also all very succinct and organized. One thing you could consider playing around with is the size and length of the lines to see if a certain size creates an effect that you may like better!
I really liked what you did with the varying sizes and transparencies! I think it makes your piece very visually interesting. My one piece of feedback would be to change the alpha label on your impressionist block to transparency to match what it actually does in the code, so your block is more readable to someone unfamiliar with what you are doing within it.
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I did impressionist painting of my dog Micah. Jo helped me get the colors to show up in accordance with the picture, because I was having trouble with that earlier. I used a dot size of 10 and step size of 8 to create very short “brush strokes”. I also made 40,000 dots to get a fuller, filled in painting. I am very happy with the result.
This painting is so beautiful! I like the detail and brightness of the sun’s rays shining through. I also think it was cool to have the dots pointing in a random direction. That adds dimension and texture.
I like the lines you used in your painting! Your painting really does look like brushstrokes. However, it seems that even with a warp block, your drawing takes a while to load. I’m wondering if you could use shorter lines and more repetitions? Or longer lines and less repetitions?
I really enjoyed your use of the dashes here, it creates a really unique landscape that is captivating. I wonder what would happen if you opted to change the pen size, or perhaps make it random within a bounded range. Good work!
I like how you chose to draw lines instead of just dots and I think you picked a good width and length for them. The final product looks blurred like it was painted while still showing the underlying image. I also think you chose a really cool photo with a lot of architectural detail.
The approach to the impressionism as a function of the entropy of each region of the image really interests me as a mathematical approach to randomness. It would be interesting to plot the entropy as a function of x and y, and see how the distribution of entropy varies from picture to picture and try to find the most “random” image to test this algorithm with.
I thought the effect you used here was not only unique, but also very applicable to the picture you decided to use. The lines converging on the center of the frame gave this nice motion effect that is especially effective when using street scenes such as these. It gives the impression that everything is flying past you as you are moving forward. Overall, I thought this was an especially creative project and visually appealing.
I love the myriad of colors in this piece. There are so many shades of green and it reminds me of a Van Gogh painting. The only thing I would add is drawing with different shaped dots to add texture.
My Snap! project creates an impressionist-style image by repeatedly placing small colored strokes at random positions on the screen. I chose a Minecraft image because I thought it was interesting how the game tries to recreate real-life visuals in a block-based world. I ran into some challenges while building the project, but Jo helped me work through them and get the final effect working.
I like how the larger, lighter circles create a soft haze while still keeping the scene recognizable. The effect looks smooth and works well for an impressionist style.