Brittany Art and Technology

My flip book, a time-based project, is fittingly based on the concept of impermanence. It walks through the life of a flower, which is cut short by a girl who picks it. The now-dead flower, though, drops a petal that turns into a drop of water and helps five other flowers. Some of them flourish and others do not. Under the same conditions, one breaks, one refuses to grow, and only one reaches its full potential. This project ended up making more of a statement than I'd anticipated. It was supposed to start as a study of a growing flower, something I draw on a regular basis. Eventually, though, I became interested in animating text and the final project ensued. Song featured is "As it Seems" by Lily Kershaw

This assignment was to create a 30x30 grid of...something. I was reminded of a coloring app I have on my phone that does just this - invites the user to color-by-number an image, but a pixelated one. I chose an image of a Coke cup and, for my objects, double-sided tape squares. On one side, I kept the paper on the tape so that I could color each square individually and I cut them apart and stuck them to the poster board. My grid ended up being 35x35 tape squares. This amounts to 1,225 squares total. The overall finished product took about fourteen hours, not including when I cut the poster board too small and had to start over again towards the beginning.

Ascii art is nearly as old as online communities themselves. The most widely known of these types of art are commonly known emoticons [i.e. :-), B-), O.o]. The most complex are difficult to accurately duplicate, but are impressive nevertheless. In their origins, they were often done manually by users but they can, and often are, automatically computer-generated today. Algorithms can use a typical image and generate ascii, or text-based, art as an output.