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Rococo generative art series

Nature’s wild flourish and untamed growth wondrously represent the exacting function of beauty — a function that is at once useful and infinitely creative. Perhaps nowhere is this delicate symbiosis better observed than in the flower, wherein a pure balance of physical fundamentals exists beneath ornate patterns and elaborate aesthetics.

Amongst the layers of undulating, vividly colored petals, attention-grabbing stigma and stamen, and lusciously decorative features, nature’s organic abundance and disorder disguises its masterful propensity for precision. Each of the flower’s components evolve through unpredictable interactions with an unwieldy natural environment, creating spectacular adaptations that emerge from the tension between what attracts most.

Rococo painters appreciated the organic fluidity found in flowers and vegetal forms, using their joyful abundance to depict a break from the rigid and stoic period the artists hoped to leave behind. They sought to reframe perfection away from predictability and toward compositions as surprising as the natural world around them.

Thus, ‘Rococo’ is a generative distortion of an old tradition: a digital painting created entirely with code that interprets and processes the natural world’s dichotomies. This painting algorithm builds upon natural structures while melding and moving their colors beyond form, growing randomly organic iterations that are as perfect as they are imperfect.

 

‘Rococo’

 

A digital painting series

Test output

 
 

500 unique artworks

Nature’s wild flourish and untamed growth wondrously represent the exacting function of beauty — a function that is at once useful and infinitely creative. Perhaps nowhere is this delicate symbiosis better observed than in the flower, wherein a pure balance of physical fundamentals exists beneath ornate patterns and elaborate aesthetics.

Amongst the layers of undulating, vividly colored petals, attention-grabbing stigma and stamen, and lusciously decorative features, nature’s organic abundance and disorder disguises its masterful propensity for precision. Each of the flower’s components evolve through unpredictable interactions with an unwieldy natural environment, creating spectacular adaptations that emerge from the tension between what attracts most.

Rococo painters appreciated the organic fluidity found in flowers and vegetal forms, using their joyful abundance to depict a break from the rigid and stoic period the artists hoped to leave behind. They sought to reframe perfection away from predictability and toward compositions as surprising as the natural world around them.

Thus, ‘Rococo’ is a generative distortion of an old tradition: a digital painting created entirely with code that interprets and processes the natural world’s dichotomies. This painting algorithm builds upon natural structures while melding and moving their colors beyond form, growing randomly organic iterations that are as perfect as they are imperfect.

Rococo @fxhash

Rococo@ Fx(flowers) Article written by Danielle King
Rococo@ An algorithmic digital painting series Article

Technical Details

• Mobile/GPU Intensive • Press “s” to save a .png of the artwork in live view
• Press “p” to render a high res output + press “s” to save a printable .png

 

The Process

 
 

A generative painting

We wanted to take those flowers into a painting like feeling, by smearing the results and their paint as if the canvas they were painted on was slightly tilted.

This gave the outputs an amazing movement like feel and we started seeing ‘Rococo’ ‘s digital paintings being drawn, this effect gave a whole new level of detail and blended the natural with a painter’s brush feel:

Movement & Definition

It was than where we started to adjust and tune the algorithm for light shadow and color palettes in order to achieve great compositions, and texture of paint and canvas and how they blend together.

Rococo @ TENDER.art partnership

We pushed this further into constructing the full collection to a level of singularity with the feedback from Tender.art tram. where each mint was needed to be as the best among the full collection, we had a beautiful feedback dynamic and could really fine tune the code into a harmonic collection

Traits

We than added the “Stripes” and “Monochrome” traits as unique traits in the collection which vary its outputs spectrum into new types of outputs

Recreating flower growth with code is main focus of this project while clashing human creativity with imperfections of function enabled these mesmerizing digital paintings come to life. our inspirations were in nature, and early botanical use in the arts. And the process starting from basic shapes to construct an organic form of a flower and vegetation.

These are some of our early sketches:

Naming the outputs

We than decided that each output will have a unique name that is made from first and last names of famous painters from our inspiration era.

‘Rococo‘ created by Ori Ben Shabat & Ronen Tanchum @ Phenomena.Labs
In collaboration with TENDER.art ❤️

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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0



 
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