Irina's Code

Coding is a tool. People often perceive coding as something that only mathematically and technically inclined people can adopt. Although it's true that mathematicians and techies often make great programmers, code can also be used by artists and...

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Interactive Recursion

This is an app for the user to control the aesthetics of the dynamic recursive design. 

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Stardust

Particle system in which all but the first fifty stars are generated with mouse clicks and travel randomly following a polar coordinate system.

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Pushkin Remix (original poem is Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin)

Generative text produced by randomly generating ten sets of replacement nouns and adjectives.

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Shooting Star

Using Lissajous curve to animate.

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Fractal Formation

Watch the center carefully. Made with translations and rotations.

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The Deepest House 2

More translations and rotations. The “user” controls the position of the spiral with the cursor. The music is Deep House Mix 2015 #85 mixed by XYPO.

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The Deepest House

The “user” controls the position of the spiral with the cursor. The music is Deep House Mix 2015 #85 mixed by XYPO.

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Hex Heads

Keyboard and mouse controlled jumping jacks animation.

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Josef Albers’ Color Study XVIII-3

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Josef Albers’ Color Study XVIII-2

I initialized an initial color of a random hue, random saturation and random brightness. Then, I used modulo operations to create the remaining colors with hues and brightness relative to the initial color. 

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Nirvana 

Working with shapes.

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Contoured Squares

Working with shapes functions.

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Town

Working with shapes functions.

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Schematic Composition (originally by Sophie Taeuber-Arp, displayed at MoMA)

I chose to replicate this work because it represents both order and disorder. It’s seems to be very exemplary of our lives- we strive for some organisation but encounter surprises that disrupt balance and symmetry. The beauty of this work reminded me that that may be a good thing. I animated the largest rectangle - appearing only when the cursor is within it’s parameters. It represents that we do have some control, even when oscillating between orderly and disorderly states.

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Solving Sol Wall Drawing #273

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Solving Sol Wall Drawing #391

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