PaintingWithBitmaps

Code from a workshop at Make/Think/Code (a lab at Pacific Northwest College of Art)

http://pnca.edu/makethinkcode/programs

Painting with Bitmaps is a two-day workshop exploring programmatic composition techniques using digital images as a source material. We will start by looking different strategies and algorithms that artists use in their work. We will learn to how access pixels that are stored in a computer’s memory and play with a few different techniques for generating new imagery. Students will spend some time adapting algorithms (pixel sorting, masking, pixel-to-vector transformations) and writing their own. The workshop will be taught using Processing (http://www.processing.org) and participants are expected to have some experience with Processing or other creative coding frameworks.

View the workshop slides: Google Docs Slideshow

Workshop Outline / Processing Sketches

Introduction

• Drawing101
• Drawing201
• ImageLoading
• PixelAccess
• PixelAccess2

PixelBending

• DisplacementRelative
• DisplacementRelative2
• DisplacementRelative3
• DisplacementAbsolute
• DisplacementAbsolute2

Custom Brushes

• MouseFollowing
• ImageBrush
• ImagePainting
• ImagePaintingBrush
• ImageSequenceBrush

Geometry / Custom Shapes

• CustomShapes
• CustomMesh
• QuadStrip
• QuadStripBrush

Texture Mapping

• TextureCoordinates
• TextureSampling
• TextureSampling2
• TextureSampling3

Gesture Recording

• GestureLooping
• GestureLoopingBrush
• GestureLoopingPainting
• GestureLoopingSoMany

Generative Techniques

• AutoGesture
• AutoGestureMoving
• VectorFieldPaint

SlitScan

• SlitScan
• SlitScanBrush

Output

• SavingImages
• SavePDF
• SavePDFMultiFrame

Utils / Other Examples

• Trig101
• BrushAngle
• Transformations
• VideoPlayback*
• VideoInput

Workshop Dates

• November 11 and 12, 2017
• Mar 24 and 25, 2018
• October 27 and 28, 2018
• March 3, 2019