final, update

This is an update on the final, not the final update :P.  I've done a proof of concept run.  Man, has it been a looooong time since I've done this.  I'm out of practice.  Also, it came out looking like some terrible pink camo.  BUT, that's mostly the color choice.  And the fact that I only have three colors.  There's not too much contrast going on here.  I might change this up a little and do something a little different.  I have two screens, so maybe I'll try these simultaneously.  I'm considering doing the initial dots as random splatters, but after that, just enlarging them ever so slightly each layer.  Anyway, here's a pic of my proofs of concept.  In all their teen girl redneck glory.

final project brainstorming

Little behind on this blog, but here i'll braindump my ideas for the final project.  Don't have many yet, but I'm hoping one of these will work:

1. Reverse Jackson Pollock fractal exploration screenprint.  This one is very non-technical.  Basically, I will do a sort of opposite jackson pollock.  I will take a screen, and each layer I will paint splatter some screenfiller onto it, then print a layer, and continue for 30 or so layers.  This should create a jackson pollock-like print, but it should look different as the drops will be subtractive, not additive.  It's also an exploration of his process taken to a different medium.  I'm not sure if this idea is appropriate as it's very non-technical.

2. My second idea is a continuation of the strange attractors, but adding a fourth dimension and creating an animation of them over time.  I would have the different start values fluctuate or maybe the input a, b, c values fluctuate.  I would have to experiment with that.  The downside to this project is that I'm not sure if it's an appropriate scope for a final project.  I'm afraid it might not be grand enough.

3. My third idea is to do screenprinting (I really like screenprinting and have been looking for an excuse to do it again... it's been a few years and that makes me sad).  This time, though, I would do cellular automata, a 2D representation of a 1D cellular automaton.  Sort of similar to amber's bead canvas.  Only I would change each layer slightly.  So the seed on the first layer would be 1000101, and the seed on the second layer would be 1100101, and so on and so forth.  The difficulty with this is that I would have to completely clean the screen between each layer which takes significantly more time than just cleaning it of ink.  Due to time constraints I would have to create much fewer layers.  Registering the layers would be more difficult, too, probably impossible to get very precise registration (registration is the act of lining up the layers so that they don't show beneath, when something is mis-registered you see a ghosting of a particular color, noticeable sometimes in magazines or newspapers if the printing got off).