BIOI started with Artmatic in 2003. Originally I bought it when I switched to OSX to replace the Kai's Powertools texture-explorer plugin, that I used in photoshop to generate quick textures. I soon found out, that it was a very complex application, with the ability to generate many different kinds of images. I also realised that it was difficult to control and master. Actually, Artmatic is one of the most difficult applications I have ever used ( = a lot!).
Stubborn as I am, I have just kept building stuctures, trying to figure out how the individual tiles worked inside an Artmatic tree.
During this process, I have rendered hundreds of images. Now that Artmatic have it's own gallery at Renderosity, I decided to post some of these images here, to share with other people. The artmatic-systems I use is mostly quite simple, because I want to know, what is going on. On the other hand, I also like when the images has a strong and simple graphic visual expression.
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Bio:
I am a freelance webdesigner, graphic designer, a soundartist and experimental musician from Denmark.
As a musician I use a Wacom drawingpad as my main instrument. I have developed this instrument so that it generates sound and visuals at the same time.
My homepage:
www.brandt-pedersen.dk
(You won't find any Artmatic there, sorry)
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Hope you find these images interesting and thanks for dropping by.
Comments (3)
melevos
very beautiful abstract creation!!!!
serendigity59@gmail.com
Nice image. Was it conceived and designed to achieve the angel effect, or was it a modification of a random seeded set of tiles? I have started learning ArtMatic Pro 4.0 and find the dice buttons and mutate button very useful to explore avenues I would not have considered. Steve
jbrandtp
Hello Steve. This image is from a set, where I was studying an iterative function, that bended an image on white background, which gives them a distinctive appearance. The angel is a result of mutating the system. I work a lot with mutations, and render many images from a system. I then set my screensaver so show these images. After a period of time, I decide which of the images I want to show to others. I experience that some images will look very flashy at first, but after repeated looking tend to become uninteresting, while others, that I in the beginning found less interesting, grows for each view. So the screensaver-part is an important step in my Artmatic workflow.