major project 2 (plans plans plans)

"Kandinsky" Collaboration with Deepart (J.Hewitt 2018)

Best way to get started on something is just to start. so I sat down with the DeepArt IO and doodled exhaustively, using a combination of the basic silhouettes devised with C. Peacey and some vintage pattern blocks to reference the "rules" and history of cutting.

I feel there are varying levels of "success" in these. They may or maynot fulfil prerequisites for computational creativity. I think they are certainly aesthetically pleasing rather than simply novel, but how far the algorithm itself is part of the aesthetic evaluation process I need to investigate further. Many are absolutely stunning images, and were I a fine artist who had painted them or had I written the Deepart Program myself  they would easily be worthy of submission as my finished pieces. However, I am a pattern cutter and I didn't write the program, it is simply a design starting point for my 3D pattern creation exercise.

Therefore I am looking for an image that has the potential to be realised in three dimensions, and possibly also a way to examine an algorithm or rule whilst doing so. The "experiments" completed already in designing iteratively like a neural network, using students as my machine learning process could possibly be repeated. But it would be more exciting to find a new algorithm or way or workimg to investigate.

These later images resulted from colouring in the shapes left by the overlaying of multiple patterns from a victorian womens sewing magazine "Mode Illustrée 1873 no 36"


I used photoshop gradients and fills to digitally colour random selected tiles before uploading the abstract image to Deepart to be used as a "style".
I later experimented with using couple of silhouettes of what the garments might have looked like once the patterns had been created... rather than just the simple body shapes, I thought they might give me clearer 3D forms perhaps. The abstract image itself once coloured is almost Kandinsky-esque, again coincidentally very appropriate for the era of dress created from the pattern! Might also be worth considering in the interests of a holistic approach the influence of theosophist thoughts on the geometry of creation... single point continuing to lines etc...

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