Shapevent

When I was in 6th or 7th grade I used to spend hours playing with Kai’s Power Tools or KPT 1.0. I used to imagine creating my own version of a the texture explorer… I’m still inspired by memories of KPT…

A few months back I read an article about snowflakes in cabinate magazine and for some reason it gave me an idea for a texture generator.

This sketch generates 64 textures - you can click them to see the full-sized texture - simply click again to go back to the thumbnail view.


Click above image to see flash version

After creating this I realized it wouldn’t be very hard to animate them:

Click above Image to see ANIMATED flash version

I also tried applying random colors but wasn’t too happy with the results - I’d say about 70% of the colored textures are hideous… the ones that aren’t look pretty good. I still prefer the black and white ones…

I may restrict the colors to a set pallet to remedy the problem, but for now I’m just going to leave it as is. Here are a few select results that I thought came out alright.

Click any of the above images to see flash version

I used Grant Skinner’s Random Seed class so that if something really interesting came up I’d easily be able to regenerate it. My current generator chooses a seed from 0-100… so there are really only 100 sets of 64 textures. If i decide to take this further, I may add the ability to enter the seed via an input textbox…

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 at 1:59 pm and is filed under actionscript, experiments, sketches, textures.