Gregg S. Reed

Computer Art

Evolving Art
Evolving Art

(.jpg) Boris Pophristov, a computer science student in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, creates web sites with me. He added a gradient feature to his new desktop image generator "Computer Art," and he created this image. To me it looks like an intellgent eye.

Computer Composition
Computer Composition

(.jpg) My computer created this computer drawing from an original computer drawing application, "Computer Art," that my web-master friend Boris Pophristov, from Plovdiv, Bulgaria created in November, 2005.

Electric Sketch
Electric Sketch

(.jpg) Boris Pophristov, a computer science student in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, creates web sites with me. He added a gradient feature to his new desktop image generator "Computer Art," and he created this image. I see an electronic painting.

Urschleim
Urschleim

(.jpg) Boris Pophristov, a computer science student in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, creates web sites with me. He added a gradient feature to his new desktop image generator "Computer Art." What fish will evolve from this primordial ooze?

Computer Art | Media List

  • icon Evolving Art

    (.jpg) Boris Pophristov, a computer science student in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, creates web sites with me. He added a gradient feature to his new desktop image generator "Computer Art," and he created this image. To me it looks like an intellgent eye.


  • icon Random
    Random

    (.pdf) "Random" is a set of images that Boris Pophristov generated from his "Computer Art" desktop application. He e-mailed the desktop application and the images to me in December 2005.


  • icon Computer Composition

    (.jpg) My computer created this computer drawing from an original computer drawing application, "Computer Art," that my web-master friend Boris Pophristov, from Plovdiv, Bulgaria created in November, 2005.


  • icon Electric Sketch

    (.jpg) Boris Pophristov, a computer science student in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, creates web sites with me. He added a gradient feature to his new desktop image generator "Computer Art," and he created this image. I see an electronic painting.


  • icon Urschleim

    (.jpg) Boris Pophristov, a computer science student in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, creates web sites with me. He added a gradient feature to his new desktop image generator "Computer Art." What fish will evolve from this primordial ooze?



Statement

(.jpg) I made this computer painting randomly with a new program that my web designer, Boris Pophristov, a computer science student in Plovdiv, Bulgaria created. Boris has also created a program that turns photographs that you place in a folder on your computer into puzzles. You can make and save computer paintings on your computer. Just download, save, and open the free computer art application at this url:

http://www.interscienceproductions.com/Computer_Art/Computer_Art.zip

Boris explained "Computer Art," writing, "The idea of this program is to show that the computer can be creative too. You can use this program to make your computer draw you a picture. Every picture the computer draws is unique and it will not be drawn again. The computer itself decides what to draw. It actually creates different shapes with different colors. You choose the style, curved or linear, and the number of shapes, from 0 to 999. Sometimes a drawing may be very good and beautiful. " Contact Boris at pophristov.boris@gmail.com

Boris has created another random art application that creates animated drawings, which Boris calls "dancing shapes." To view "Dancing Shapes" on the web site www.deviantart.com, click here ,


Reviews

Although "Computer Art" does not help the user create a work of art from his or her mind and skills, the application could help artists and students understand elements of artistic composition.

The application allows the computer, not the user, to create, color, and superimpose shapes. But the user can select the number of shapes, from 0 to 999. "Computer Art" could help an artist or designer see the looks of increasing number of shapes in a composition.

1. Use "Computer Art" to create one abstract shape at a time, and see the artistic look of shapes that the computer creates randomly. Save the shapes and use them in an art or design composition.

2. Increase the number of shapes in a series of drawings in a mathematical relationship, such as 2 to the first, second, fourth, and eighth powers. Also see how the colors of the shapes superimpose.--Gregg Reed