Oblivious
“Oblivious,” a new illustration drawn and painted in Brushes on my iPhone, then textured in Photoshop.
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Water Scene
A new illustration painted in Photoshop.
Mormon Artist Issue 13
Mormon Artist Issue 13, our special science fiction and fantasy issue, is now available. We’ve got interviews with Orson Scott Card, Ally Condie, Dave Wolverton, Aprilynne Pike, Tracy Hickman, Mette Ivie Harrison, Brandon Mull, James Christensen, Derryl Yeager, and Keri Doering, along with a special Writing Excuses podcast by Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler. Enjoy:
L-system animation tests
I’ve been playing around some more with the L-system code and modified it to animate the angle property and output each frame to a file. I also added some color and started using blending modes for the brushes. Once I clean up the code, I’ll post it to GitHub.
Anyway, here are some of the animation tests (I used Blender to put the frames together into an animation):
And the first one I did, which is a little too long and a little too fast:
L-system sketches
I’ve been getting into procedural drawing and generative art some more, and last week I decided to try out L-systems. I ported some Processing code to Javascript and Canvas, then modified it and added controls so I could tweak the values and try things out. I also wrote a handful of additional brushes to get more interesting renders out of it (since plain lines can be kind of boring).
The algorithm isn’t entirely accurate — at least based off of the axioms and rulesets I plugged in from the Algorithmic Beauty of Plants book — but I like what I’m getting. I’ll do a second app sometime later with the correct algorithm.
Anyway, the code (which is kind of messy at the moment) is on GitHub. Sometime later I plan to add color selectors and more brushes. You can see the rest of these images in my sketches set on Flickr.
Journal of Discourses completed
It’s taken a bit longer than I expected, but I’ve released the remaining volumes of the Journal of Discourses, in EPUB and Kindle formats.
Grimms’ Tales (1812/1815)
For a few years now I’ve wanted to publish the first German edition of the Grimms’ fairy tales, and today that wish comes true. The Kinder- und Hausmärchen was originally published in two parts, one in 1812 and one in 1815. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published several more editions of the tales during their lifetimes, adding new stories (lots) and removing others (not quite as many).
Anyway, you can read the tales in EPUB or Kindle.
Ruby glosses
A while ago I came across the CSS3 Ruby spec, but it seemed to only apply to East Asian texts. Then today I ran across it again (see User Agent Man’s post) and realized it’s perfect for glossing texts.
For example, here are the first few verses of the Chapter 2 exercise in Bennett’s An Introduction to the Gothic Language:
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In dagam Hērōdis þiudanis qēmun Iōsēf jah Maria in Bēþlahaím . -
jah jáinar gabar Maria Iēsu . -
jah haírdjōs wēsun jáinar ana akra
The syntax:
In
dagam
Hērōdis
Kind of verbose, though. If I end up using this a lot, I’ll probably write a preprocessor that lets me use abbreviated syntax — something like this:
In::(in, into) dagam::(days) Hērōdis::(of Herod)Sidenote: I was originally using a combining macron for the macrons (U+0304), but Georgia doesn’t do the combining correctly. Times New Roman does, though. Weird. I ended up just going with the precomposed characters. Oh well.
Godhead
“Godhead,” a new illustration, painted in Photoshop:
Moonchild
“Moonchild,” another new illustration, drawn in Photoshop. I’ve wanted to do something more like a children’s book illustration and have been itching to try the gray/black/white style. This is what I came up with:
