Hurray, another Christmas card! This one contains loads of snow flakes. Just as real snow flakes, all of them are unique. Thanks to the randomization of the corner locations, no two snow flakes are the same. The design also contains a hidden message, inspired by the album covers of the band Soulwax. A text becomes visible when you look at the image while deliberately defocussing your eyes!
Colors from images
Almost all designs that I have created so far are either based on a few base colors, or use completely random colors. I am now also experimenting with the use of images as basis for the colors in the patterns. The image can for example be a schematic of the world map, a well-known piece of art, or just a picture that you really like.
Christmas card
This year is the first time that I have used one of my own designs for the Christmas card that my girlfriend and me send out to our family and friends. The design is based on triangle shapes, that are colored in alternating stripes of the Christmas colors red, green, and white. Randomization of the corner locations of the triangles and of the color shades results in a 3D-looking pattern that appears both random and structured at the same time.
Adding more shapes and colors
So far, all patterns I have created are based on diamond shapes. I have now started adding more possible shapes to build patterns from: triangles (half of a diamond), hexagons (three diamonds combined), and circles. In addition, I started experimenting with adding more base colors to the designs. Instead of using a single color that randomizes towards black and white, I created designs that use several base colors that can randomize towards any other color.
Randomness transitions
To depict the contrast between randomness and structure more explicitly, I started making designs that include spatial transitions from a well-structured pattern into a randomized one. As the pattern starts to become slightly randomized, it gets more interesting and different shapes seem to appear. But as randomness progresses, the pattern becomes more and more chaotic and the original structure is hardly recognizable any more.