Project 2: After Gaines

 The artwork I chose to base inspiration off of was the "Untitled" circular pattern art, shown below. Considering the circles in the art were inconsistently spaced yet also grouped together, I thought I could play around with being able to change the spacing and grouping of circles in my scene. From the start, I also knew I wanted to incorporate the camera in some way - as well as having the mouse change the scene camera perspective to view the pattern in different ways based on user input. 



Aesthetically, all the circles in the original static art had varying textures and colors, and I wanted to make those "moving", so I brought in Noise and turned off monochrome to add vibrant colors - and combined that with the video camera in a Composite TOP, which went to a Phong MAT to be sent to the Geometry. I made two circles, each expanded to be their own spiral pattern. 


When it comes to interaction, the video camera RGB values from an Analyze CHOP are changing the background color, while also controlling the circles themselves: the anchor U/V of one being controlled by G/B values, and the radius of the other being controlled by R. I also added sliders to change the pattern itself up: one changing the number of cycles, while the other changes the steps per cycle. These slider values end up going into the Scale OP of the Geo.


All in all, this leads to really interesting circular visuals based on the current lighting and color of your video camera, as well as the perspective of it all changing based on mouse movement - all while the sliders control the spacing/pattern itself. Gaines' circular art was a great inspiration for this. 






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