Explorations

For this lecture, two small projects are created by using the program Processing. The first project is an exploration of using Processing to analyze perspectives and symmetries in a Renaissance painting. "The School of Athens" is taken as an example. Through using scale transformation the right proportion could be measured in this painting and through using the Catmull-Rom spines [1] in processing, a composition could be found in the painting.

Final design

The final design of this elective is focused on making a tesselation art piece in Processing using Turtle Graphics. In the designed artwork, Heesch-Kienzle style C3C3C3C3 is used. This tessellation shape consists of four lines: AB, AC, DB, and DC, in which AB is the same line as AC and DB is the same line as DC. Turning the line AB in around point A over 120 degrees clockwise falls into the position AC. Point D is a reflection-point of point A with respect to the line BC. Whereby turning DB around point D counter-clockwise over 120 degrees will fall into the line DC. An example of a Processing code from Feijs is used for visualizing this tessellation[2].

References

1. Twigg, C. (2003). Catmull-rom splines. Computer, 41(6), 4-6.

2. Feijs, L. M., & Hu, J. (2013). Turtles for tessellations. Proceedings of Bridges, 241-248.