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Albers as a Millennial (WaffleJS)

Billy Roh
November 03, 2016

Albers as a Millennial (WaffleJS)

Making generative art with JavaScript

Billy Roh

November 03, 2016
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  1. http://www.albersfoundation.org/artists/biographies/ Josef Albers Born 1888 in Bottrop, Germany Died 1976

    in Connecticut Born 1899 in Berlin, Germany Died 1994 in Connecticut Anni Albers (née Fleischmann)
  2. Homage to the Square is not a single work. It’s

    a body of work, with hundreds of pieces.
  3. Homage to the Square is not a single work. It’s

    a body of work, with hundreds of pieces. There are some notable visual patterns though.
  4. And less obviously, they tend to come in two flavours:

    • Similar colour palette • Contrasting colour palette
  5. Sizes of the squares The following squares grow by 20%

    until they reach 100%. 40% 60% 80% 100%
  6. Positions of the squares The succeeding squares are positions in

    increments of 5% after that. (e.g. 10%, 15%) Colour Theory Break!
  7. Colour palette Triads are hues that are roughly a third

    of the way away from one another on a colour wheel.
  8. Colour palette These works would be called triads(ish) because some

    of these hues are further away than others.
  9. Stand back from this painting and look at the whole

    thing. Are the squares stacked on top of each other, like cut out pieces of construction paper? Are they sinking underneath each other, as if you are looking at a painting of a tunnel? Each painting explored the same basic question: can an artist create the appearance of three dimensions, using only color relations?
  10. Josef Albers explored this question with his medium: canvas and

    paint. How can we explore this further in our medium: JavaScript?
  11. If you look at this pattern closely, you’ll see it’s

    a random grid of triangles. Grid Pattern
  12. If you look at this pattern closely, you’ll see it’s

    a random grid of triangles. Grid Pattern
  13. If you look at this pattern closely, you’ll see it’s

    a random grid of triangles. Grid Pattern 1 2 3 4