Art Gallery

I've been interested in computer art at least since my old college course "Voice and Image Processing." Later (but still quite a while ago), I had a lot of time on my hands, and I used some of it to indulge the bent. So I hung out on the old Compuserve Graphics forum, got myself a hand scanner and several paint and draw programs (most notably, the PC port of the Amiga program Deluxe Paint by Electronic Arts), and noodled around. Some of the result were kinda keen. I've put some thumbnails of some of them below; just click on the thumbnails for a larger view.

I was also interested in the technique of "color cycling" which Deluxe Paint really liked. Unfortunately, web browsers do not support this trick. So I've been playing around with Java programming to see if I can get it to work under Java (first answer: not really easily so far, but progress continues). Here's a link to my preliminary writeup:

Color cycling in Java

On Fractint and Deluxe Paint

A good many of the items here were made with a particular technique. First, I'd play around with the classic DOS program Fractint, a fractal generating program, until I got something that interested me. It didn't have to be the entire thing; often a detail would do. Then I'd extract that interesting item, and import it into Deluxe Paint, to use it as a Deluxe Paint "brush." There, I'd play around with it, or add other things to it, until I got something that looked good enough to keep. Sometimes, it would be vaguely representational, more often not.

Other times, I'd do the same thing with something that I found and scanned into my machine. Just playing around, of course, but as the great Yogi once said, "You can observe a lot by watching."