#distortion map

[rivka-kopelman]

[bummeraftersummer]

Thank goodness for motion blur so it can hide all my cruddy animations. Also, bless Sum 41. No sound because lol, copyrights and all that jazz.

[procedural-generation]

Color-Wander

Matt Deslauriers created this generative art program as a weekend project. Built with Node.js and the HTML5 canvas, it 

You can view it in your browser (right click to download the image!) or look at the source code on github.

Matt’s blogpost about the project goes into some detail about it. I found the use of a distortion map to provide structure to be inspiring, and the crowdsourcing of the color palettes is an interesting way to provide structure.

It’d be interesting to take some of these techniques and combine them with other approaches. What happens when you use an animated Deep Dream image for a distortion map?