Text Art Part Three: Textorizer, Textorizer 2, & Excoffizer

I have mixed feeling towards these websites. I didn't venture far into obscuring the image with text because I really wanted to be able to still distinguish the image. As I changed the settings, I like it less and less for the image to become more fragmented as the text settings changed. I know we are supposed to use an image that we've taken during the course but I wanted to use a different picture to mix up the content of my images. I used another image of myself for Textorizer. I played around with the settings and fonts and whatnot and found something very pleasing to me.

The second image I used was for Textorizer 2. I persoanlly didn't see a difference between Textorizer and Textorizer 2, so if anyone know the difference please let me know. I used my 'Vouchers Welcome' image from my urban landscape assignment. The window for which this image comes from was an exchange store for appliances. This like vacuum cleaners, washers and dryers, refrigerators, and yard appliances like lawn mowers, leaf vacuums, and so on. Although, there were none of these things in the store. It was pretty much emptied of everything and even partly gutted, I assume for remodeling.

My third imaged utilized Excoffizer. This website turned your image into a image made up of crazy lines. When you initally open Excoffizer, the default image provided is of Salvador Dali, a surrealist artist with an amazing mustache. The lines that make up the image is flowing and make the image flux like looking at one of the hypnotic spirals. I used another image from my urban landscape assignment. I didn't get too crazy with my lines but I was happy with my results. I get a candy stripe vibe from this image or of an old school candy poster.

Text Art Part Two: Tagxedo

The part of the weekly assignment utilized a website called Tagexdo. This website takes an uploaded image, or an image template that the website provides, and applies text to the image. Very similar to the previous part of the assignment. Although, I faced problem after problem with the settings. It may be because I use Google Chrome for my laptop and it does not work for it. I had to use Internet Explorer which I don't use, like, at all. Just to upload an image, the settings were very deceiving. But, after Googling and searching I figured it all out. And, I enjoyed this website the most. This might be because I used and image of myself. Again, I had trouble figuring out how to change the font, size, color, and so on. But, in the end I love how it turned out. I picked words that I though described me well, or at least how I feel about myself, and a font that matched these words. Overall, I would use this again because you could put this on a shirt or coffee mug. I might have to use this for upcoming holiday gifts.

Text Art Part One: GlassGiant and Text-Image

This week has been very crazy for me. But, that is on my own accord. I had planned to start this assignment early over the weekend but I had a drawing to do for class Friday, a wedding I almost forgot about Saturday, and a pumpkin to carve Sunday. The pumpkin should have only taken an hour, but I had many interruptions unfortunately.

As I dived into this week's assignments, I wish I would have taken the time earlier to experiment more. Although I think I did a good job with what I created, I wish I had more time to tweek every detail and just explore the settings more. Part one of this week's assignment utilized GlassGiant, which took an image you upload and uses a character encoding scheme to transform your image into a text based image. This image is my 'No Soliciting' image from my urban landscape assignment. I like how the text makes up the image that involves text. The text literally makes up the words 'No Soliciting'. I love it.

Text-Image pretty much does the same thing. I used another picture from my urban landscape assignment. This is a warehouse off of Monroe Street with a barbed wire fence that unfortunately prevented me from exploring it more. I loved that it kept the color from my original image. The initial setting used numbers to generate the image and I changed to different words like 'warehouse' 'wire' 'colossal' and so on. But, I didn't like the effect as much. So, I went back to the initial setting and found that the numbers made the image look more complete and less fragmented.


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Part Three of Generative Art: Flame Painter

I did not like this program as much as the other two. I could not get it to do what I wanted it to do. All you had to do was swipe your finger and it went blazing. I made my sister and my name as the first picture. I liked making the flame swirl and also having it condensed into that bright white glow.  I know I didn't go too far with these images but it just wouldn't do what I wanted it to. I had plenty of ideas but none of them worked out the way I wanted them to. This program even had an eraser that I could use but everything I tried did no justice to what I wanted to create. For my second picture, I tried to simplify it in hopes to forfeit some of the control in my creating process. As I have mentioned before, I have a touch screen laptop. If I used my mouse cursor, I could hover over a specific spot and it would condense to that bright white color. If I used my finger to tap on the screen to start a line, it would slash a line of color across the screen. I used this to my advantage. It reminded me of a Piet Mondrian painting of the squares and primary colors. By taping on my screen in different ways, I was able to change the thickness of each lines.

Part Two of Generative Art: Scribbler Too

 This is the second program we used. It was similar to the first one but had some major differences. For starters, the generative lines connect as the user draws out the image. In the previous program, an outline was drawn and then the user pressed a 'start' button to start the generative process. This program still gives the user the ability to change the color, thickness, and 'scribbleness' but it is available as you draw and not only after you start the generative process in the first program. My favorite thing about this program is that it allows the user to upload an image that they can trace. I used this to trace a picture a girl. The original picture was a blonde, pale girl. I wanted my image to be slightly more striking so I added more lines to the hair to make it darker and a thicker line above the eyes. Note: these are not the same lines that distinguish the eyebrows. I am very proud of my second picture. I'm going to say this now and I'm going to flaunt it, I did NOT use a picture to trace. That is my own hand that I used to look at. I loved how I could utilize the generative lines to look like the tiny lines of you fingers and hand. I really enjoyed this and that says something due to the fact that I haven't enjoyed the previous projects. It was pretty close to just drawing on paper and that is probably why I liked it as much as I did.