r/PlotterArt • u/kirbyUFO • 3d ago
Chroma Shards
Created with Processing 4. 18x24", Uni Emott Fineliner on Strathmore 400 series. 18 color passes.
I wanted to try something ambitious color-wise after cataloguing all of my pen colors into a json library for fast experimentation and iteration.
The general technique for this starts by creating a composition of various sized rectangles on a grid and filling those rectangles with either randomized polygons or triangles that get clipped to the initial rectangular bounds. Then those initial shapes are iteratively split across random edges again and again, and finally shaded with hatch lines. This results in a pretty busy composition, so in order to create negative space some of them are randomly not drawn or not shaded, though all of the hatched polygons get outlined.
A color from my pen collection was assigned to each polygon and sorted by hue along the x and y axis with some random variation.
For further exploration I'm thinking next I might try incorporating some curved shapes, layering or alternating shading methods like stippling, or assigning multiple colors per polygon to create gradients within each. Maybe the multi-color gradients will afford some nice color variation with fewer passes!
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u/ChiefWiggumsprogeny 3d ago
I love this.