sketch-a-day
coding a visual idea a day
Welcome! My name is Alexandre Villares and since January, 2018 I have been coding sketches everyday, publishing the source code in the same repository that stores this page, github.com/villares/sketch-a-day.
The results are mostly tentative, exploratory, and I don’t feel like they need to be relevant or meaningful on any particular day. The everyday practice leads to the emergence of ideas that I consider interesting, worthy of further exploration. Some of those have been added to selected work, this collection itself became valuable for me, and it is my pleasure to share it with anyone willing to explore coding as a creative and expressive medium.
Please do not hesitate to contact me regarding licenses to use my work, teaching opportunities, consulting or other projects. Moreover, I kindly invite you to subscribe to my newsletter, [sketch-mail]. If you appreciate what I have been doing, you may support my artistic work, research and open educational resources I publish on-line using gumroad.com/villares, PayPal or PIX at 46c37783-5edb-4f1c-b3a8-1309db11488c.
Here are listed some of the tools I have been using:
- [py5] A new Processing Java + Python 3 amazing tool
- [pyp5js] initially a Python to p5js trancriptor, now a pyodide + p5js tool
- [pyscript] A new Python in the browser tool.
- [Py.Processing] Processing Python mode
- [Processing Java Processing Java or “standard” mode
- [p5.js] JavaScript library from the Processing Foundation
- [shoebot] Generate 2D vector graphics with Python
- [FreeCAD] A wonderful 3D modeling tool, CAD & more, Python infused.
- [p5py] A Python 3 implementation of Processing ideas (no Java needed)
- [flat] A generative infrastructure library for Python (via Allison Parrish’s Bezmerizing)
- [VPython] Python + glowscript gives you 3D on the browser
- [PySimpleGUI] Python GUIs for Humans
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More OpenCV
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Transparent PNG export accumulating frames
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Recreating Ira Greenberg’s 2 colour Trouched + MAM Trouchet example
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Trouchet WIP
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5 colors, random choice of next, but do not repeat last 2.
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4 colors, do not repeat last 3… this creates a cycle. Each horiz. band repeats process, so new configuration.
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d’aprés Vera Molnár’s Des(ordres)
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Trying to recreate this work by Vera Molnár: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1488630/print/
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OpenCV edge detection on a video
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OpenCV edge detection on a video
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Java swing
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sketch_2023_03_21 [Processing Java]
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Porting a Processing forum example to py5
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Porting a Processing forum example to py5
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Based on Tom Larrow’s code.
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Inspired by Vera Molnár’s Icône 2020
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Learning more numpy…
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144 combinations of sizes, nubmer of points and 2 colors.
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Another numbered squares idea…
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back to shuffling squares?
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Tried threads, still too slow. I shoul try Numpy… I asked for Melissa Weber’s helpp
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A horribly slow Particle Life simulation (adapted from the Noite de Processing one) WIP
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# Kate Rose Morley's palette
# https://iamkate.com/data/12-bit-rainbow/
#Processing #Python #py5 imported mode
#genuary #genuary30 #トゥートProcessing
from itertools import product
palette = (
'#817', '#a35', '#c66', '#e94',
'#ed0', '#9d5', '#4d8', '#2cb',
'#0bc', '#09c', '#36b', '#639'
)
def setup():
global palavras
size(800, 800)
no_loop()
rect_mode(CENTER)
no_stroke()
def draw():
w = 400
i = 0
for x, y in product(range(0, width, w), repeat=2):
for z in range(3):
fill(palette[i])
square(w / 2 + x, w / 2 + y, w / (z / 2 + 1))
i += 1
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from random import sample
from itertools import product
palette = (
'#817', '#a35', '#c66', '#e94',
'#ed0', '#9d5', '#4d8', '#2cb',
'#0bc', '#09c', '#36b', '#639'
)
def setup():
global palavras
size(800, 800)
no_loop()
rect_mode(CENTER)
no_stroke()
def draw():
w = 100
for x, y in product(range(0, width, w), repeat=2):
d = width // w
cores = sample(palette, d)
for z in range(d):
fill(cores[z])
square(w / 2 + x, w / 2 + y, w / (z / 2 + 1))
def key_pressed():
redraw()
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Based on Tom Larrow’s experiment at: https://codeberg.org/TomLarrow/creative-coding-experiments/src/branch/main/x_0049/x_0049.py
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d’aprés Vera Molnar “interruptions” (https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1193775/interruptions-drawing-vera-molnar/)dapr
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- To listen: recording.mp4
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"""
A reticule of colored circles forms The Beatles's Abbey Road album cover
"""
import py5
def setup():
py5.size(1000, 1000)
py5.color_mode(py5.HSB)
img = py5.load_image('ar.jpg')
py5.no_stroke()
py5.background(0)
s = 10
w = py5.width // s
for i in range(w):
for j in range(w):
x, y = s // 2 + i * s, s // 2 + j * s
px = img.get(x, y)
h = py5.hue(px)
sat = py5.saturation(px)
b = 0.36 + py5.brightness(px) / 400
py5.fill(h, sat * 2, 255)
py5.circle(x, y, s * b)
py5.save('out.png')
py5.run_sketch()
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D’aprés @ntsutae つぶやきProcessing https://twitter.com/ntsutae/status/1268432505356513280?s=20
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from itertools import product
circles = []
intersections = []
def setup():
size(600, 600)
for x, y in product(range(100, 550, 50), repeat=2):
r = random(10, 60)
circles.append((x, y, r))
for xa, ya, ra in circles:
for xb, yb, rb in circles[1:]:
if (xa, ya) != (xb, yb):
pts = calc_cci(xa, ya, ra, xb, yb, rb)
intersections.extend(pts)
background(0, 0, 100)
stroke(255)
no_fill()
for x, y, r in circles:
circle(x, y, r * 2)
no_stroke()
fill(255, 0, 0)
for x, y in intersections:
circle(x, y, 5)
def calc_cci(x0, y0, r0, x1 ,y1, r1):
d = dist(x0, y0, x1, y1)
a = (r0 ** 2-r1 ** 2+d ** 2) / (2 * d)
hsqd = r0 ** 2 - a ** 2
if hsqd == 0:
return [(x0 + a * (x1 - x0) / d, y0 + a * (y1 - y0) / d)]
elif hsqd > 0:
h = sqrt(hsqd)
x2 = x0 + a * (x1 - x0) / d
y2 = y0 + a * (y1 - y0) / d
xa, ya = x2 + h * (y1 - y0) / d, y2 - h * (x1 - x0) / d
xb, yb = x2 - h * (y1 - y0) / d, y2 + h * (x1 - x0) / d
return[(xa, ya), (xb, yb)]
else:
return []
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sketch_2023_01_03 [Processing Java] & [py5]
Java version:
// Para criar imagem com glitch a partir de
// arquivo JPG na sub-pasta /data
PImage img;
int n = 10; // número de passos estragando bytes!
String nomeArquivo = "sesc.jpg";
void setup() {
size(382, 510);
noLoop();
}
void draw() {
byte[] data=loadBytes(nomeArquivo); // carrega a imagem original
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
int loc=(int)random(1, data.length); // sorteia uma posição no array
data[loc]=(byte)random(255); // sorteia um valor de byte e substitui
}
saveBytes("gliched_" + nomeArquivo, data); // salva um novo arquivo modificado
img = loadImage("gliched_" + nomeArquivo); // carrega a imagem modificada
image (img, 0, 0);
}
void keyPressed() {
saveFrame("###.png");
redraw();
}
Python version:
# using py5 (py5coding.org) imported mode
from PIL import Image
import io
def setup():
size(517, 707)
no_loop()
def draw():
with open('data/a.jpg', 'rb') as f:
list_jpg_bytes = list(f.read())
for _ in range(10):
loc = random_int(len(list_jpg_bytes) - 1)
list_jpg_bytes[loc] = random_int(1, 255)
stream = io.BytesIO(bytes(list_jpg_bytes))
new_img = Image.open(stream)
try:
image(convert_image(new_img), 0, 0) # PIL.Image to py5Image
except: # OSError / UnidentifiedImageError:
pass
def key_pressed():
save_frame("###.png");
redraw()
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Genuary 2 - 10 minutes
def setup():
size(600, 600)
color_mode(HSB)
no_stroke()
rect_mode(CENTER)
def draw():
background(0)
m = frame_count #1 + mouse_x // 10
for x in range(100):
cx = 50 + x * 5
for y in range(100):
cy = 50 + y * 5
c = (x ^ y) ** 13 % m
fill(c * (255 / m), 255, 255)
# print(c, cx, cy)
square(cx, cy, 5)
if frame_count % 10 == 0 and frame_count <= 100:
save_frame('###.png')
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Genuary 1 - loop
def setup():
size(600, 600)
blend_mode(ADD)
no_stroke()
def draw():
background(0)
xc = yc = 300
r = 250
for i in range(6):
m = cos(radians(frame_count / 2)) ** 2
a = radians(frame_count / 2 + 60 * i)
x = xc + r * cos(a)
y = yc + r * sin(a)
fill(0, 0, 255)
circle(x, y, 50)
x = xc + r * cos(a * m)
y = yc + r * sin(a * m)
fill(0, 255, 0)
circle(x, y, 50)
x = xc + r * cos(a * -m)
y = yc + r * sin(a * -m)
fill(255, 0, 0)
circle(x, y, 50)
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The sketch-a-day project, images and code repository, by Alexandre B A Villares are licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 
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