Planning After Charles Gaines Project Post

   The Charles Gains artwork I was inspired by most to work off of is one of his trees, specifically being Numbers and Trees: Central Park Series II. The base of his art is a black and white photo of Central Park, being of trees. He then layers the photo with a grid and series of squares, that are built upon the calculations of the last artwork.


I created a scene based off of the photo shown, pixelated strong pastel like colors on top of a monochrome black and white scene. My scene is very similiar, with 2 photos, one of a enviorment I monochromed, and another of a tree I found that is used as the center piece.

My process starts with me editing the photo of the singular tree I found in canva. I used the programs background removal tool to make the enviorment white, leaving the only color in the photo being the tree itself. With this photo of the tree on the white background, I start the color selection process. I run the photo through 4 different Chroma Key TOP's, selecting 4 different ranges of hues in the photo. This allows me to layer 4 different colors to different parts of the tree.

I then run each of the four chromas through a resolution, then a fit TOP. In the resolution, I scale down the resolution of each sub-hue image to 64 by 64. This makes each one more grainy. These grainy images are put into a fit TOP, where I use the "Input Smoothness" ability and set it to "nearest pixel". This changes the grainy images into pixelated ones, now changing each hue into its own sub-pixel image.

These fits are ran through composite TOP's, where I work in the color changer. Each composite is connected to a fit and constant. Each constant changes color, due to a timer and a math. I set the timer to repeat, and just cycle through 0 - 1 and 0.25 speed. This timer is sent through 4 different math CHOP's changing the value into either 0 - 1, 1 - 0, 0.25 - 0.75, or 0.75 - 0.25. Each of these math CHOP's are inputted into different parts of the RGB code for each constant, making sure they all change colors differently over time.

The 4 composites are put back together with a layer mix TOP, putting the 4 tree hues back together, but pixelated and color changing. I then run the layer mix through a layout TOP to make sure it is sized/placed well for the final composite. I then add my background image, run it through a monochrome TOP, and combine the two, creating my final design.




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