This piece is generally based on Damien Hirst spots, with his simple rule of no exact colour more than once, but I totally broke that rule, of course.
The idea behind the project was to take one of the simplest things in generative art, randomly coloured dots on a grid.
Many projects use dots on a grid as the base foundation for building more complexity. However, just the dots themselves are often considered too simple to have as a project on their own.
Given the limited amount of time for a 12-hour speed run, I decided to see if I could take something as simple as dots and inject just a little bit of GenArt personality into it. The first step was to add some variation to the shape of the dots.
- Canonical project page: https://www.fxhash.xyz/generative/17648
- High-resolution page: https://revdancatt.com/art/mfing-dots-on-a-mfing-grid-17648
- "Right Click Save" edition: https://revdancatt.com/RCS/mfing-dots-on-a-mfing-grid-17648
Canonical: where the v1 of the project was first published
High-res: where the project lives on my website with high-res outputs
RCS edition: where the latest updated version of the project lives
The files you need are...
index.html
╰ index.js
╰ line.js
╰ page.js
╰ paper.js
╰ perlin.js
...spin up a local webserver or just opening index.html should do the trick, see instructions.md for, well, instructions.
I've placed the code here for educational purposes, for anyone who wants to learn from somewhat badly written code. You may not sell/mint/etc. outputs from this code, you may keep, print, display them for personal use. Please see the LICENSE for more information.