Whirligrid
2018
Whirligrid is a generative art piece—not gen ai—leveraging p5.js.
I wrote this app which takes as input a character from Zuzanna Licko's font, Whirligig, as well as a pre-defined color palette. It then generates the composition by randomly applying colors and opacities to the character dupicated a specified number of times and laid out on a grid.
Once generated, I exported vector images from the p5.js canvas and took them into Illustrator to further manipulate color via the advanced recoloring option (highly recommended, and super fun).
The animated piece up top is a series of those finished stills, placed in sequence and rotating through via a JavaScript module I quickly wrote.
