Next Brush Stroke Predictor
About:
The Next Brush Stroke Predictor (NBSP) is a digital drawing application that captures the users brush strokes as they draw and uses this data to predict how the user would respond to a canvas. The program captures user choice. Given a canvas, what do you do next? How are you creating tension? How do you handle composition? It recycles these choices and reproduces a choice when the input canvases are similar.
As the artists make marks on the canvas, they are depositing something more than the mark itself. The act of mark making encodes the artists’ internal world made up of subconscious impulses and intentional efforts. Each mark is the stamp of the artist’s identity. The NBSP algorithm stores these stamps and recycles them when the canvas is in a similar context.
The program does not know what an apple is if you draw one, but it does know about the relationship of that grey blob to any other blob. It understands arrangement of values and the action of creating tension. Although the images NBSP produces will be abstract, they will still retain meaning, intent, and information. The algorithm exclusively uses data given to it meaning it is deeply personal and connected to the artist.
Download: Next_Brush_Stroke_Predictor0.1.2
Next Brush Stroke Predictor 0.1.2
OneDrive Download: Next_Brush_Stroke_Predictor0.1.2
Github: Git_Hub_NBSP0.1.2
Next Brush Stroke Predictor 0.2 (Under Construction)
Github: Git_Hub_NBSP0.2
Database: Fondations
Database: Origins
On Tension
Given two elements X and Y and their respective meanings X_m, Y_m arranged in a composition C. The resulting meaning of the composition C_m does not equal the sum of the element’s meanings, it indeed contains more meaning than the parts of its sum. C_m > X_m + Y_m. There is a missing factor, the relationship R between X and Y. The meaning of each element is scaled by its relationship to the other element. C_m >= X_m * R_y + Y_m * R_x.
For example, given a knife and an apple. Individually a knife could be a weapon, but we know given the context of apple it is most probably used as a tool. In addition, an apple can be immature still stuck to the tree, just right for eating, or rotten on the ground. The presence of the knife implies the apple is probably just right for eating. Thus, the meaning of each element has been multiplied.
In painting this is referred to as Tension. Tension in painting refers to the relationships of visual elements. It is the interplay of line, shape, color, contrast that describes composition. Tension adds drama and depth to an image and is used to evoke emotion from the viewer or communicate thematic content or psychological states.
