Planning after Charles Gaines

     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 plan to make a scene based on the type Charles Gains have. I will take two photos, one of a beautiful environment to make black and grey, and the other of a standalone tree that I can mask the background out off. I will overlap the tree photo on top of the black and white background photo, using TD to create a composite image of the tree, turning it into a grid, and having different colored pixels based on the brightness of each grid square it is overlapping with.

I plan to make start with two movieFileIn's, one being the black and white background photo, and the other being the singular tree. I will use a resolution and a top to chop to create the grid and find brightness values for each square in order to create the colors, using a math chop in the end to make sure values are where I need them to be. A chop to sop and then an instancer will create the dots to overlay onto the black and white background photo. Finally a camera, light, geometry, and a render will help display my scene, which will go into a window so it can be displayed outside of touch designer.


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