Better than stealing...

Remember way back when your were that kid whose only tools of trade in teh bag o' tricks were pencil and crayons and stuff like that, ah the small bricks of water colors, the cheap blue color box or color bricks where you'd brush the watery brush and ... blah ends here.
So, yes, better than even copy pasting, not caring about copyrights, etc why not trace the stuff you like as in the old school days :). After all there's no harm/copyright violation in getting inspired from an artform. So for lenny.in (crap this is 3rd day in making and its not yet out)... I needed some logos, some cool graphics for gmail, twitter and Lenny itself. Here's how I got it done -

1. Load original image/photo into ArtRage or MyPaint (on linux)
2. Start drawing... draw ... draw... draw some more
3. Resize into iconic/useful proportion, and smile.

Lol I might just have mislead you... but hey this obviously sounds like a safer practice than outright copy pasting media content from here and there.

Anyways so this is what I could get out of it (zoom to see brush strokes) -


and finally ->

madetokill.com is up!

Just finished the design for our web-design firm - MadeToKill Design Studios
After all this knowledge of XHTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript should be put to good use. So far, clients have been happy & satisfied. Looking forward to do some more great projects with these wonderfull people.
Have a look -
Wondering how I took these full page website photos ? Google for abduction add-on in firefox.
Have got any work for us ? just send me a mail on ideamonk[at]madetokill.com
Do take a look at some of our works at madetokill.com

Another processing adventure

Some work in Process (progress ?!)

Some work I've been recently doing in Processing 1.0. I can't show applets for these, each of them too more than 20 minutes to render! Will talk more about how I did the second one and 4th one in detail later. All this began in C++ and allegro one day... I haven't yet got the effects I wished to program :| but, processing is taking these experiments into a whole new direction!

have a look at some more I finished an hour ago...

An example for what I call circulation-fx -
Put this image into data folder int the processing project you created
This is the code that breaks it into beautiful circles -

/* Circulation-fx                              */
/* crappy-test version                         */

PGraphics   buffer,checkbak;
PFont font;
PImage girl;
color blend1, blend2,src,original,test;
/* ******************* configuration variables */
int tolerance = 15,   bmax = 100,   bsize;
// adjust tolerance and bmax(max size for circles)

int sX, sY;
boolean possible = true;
float stime;
char c;
String s;

void setup(){
noLoop();

background (255,255,255);

/* *************** change the image here ********************** */
girl = loadImage ("surfing.jpg");
size(girl.width,girl.height);
buffer = createGraphics (girl.width,girl.height,P3D);
buffer.beginDraw();
buffer.noStroke();
buffer.background(255);
buffer.textFont(font);
buffer.endDraw();

stime=millis();
loop();
}

void draw(){
buffer.beginDraw();

possible = true;
bsize=2;

sX=int(random(screen.width));
sY=int(random(screen.height));
test = girl.get(sX,sY);

original=blend2=blend1 = girl.get (sX,sY);

while (possible && bsize<= tolerance &&       abs(blue(blend1)-blue(blend2)) <= tolerance &&       abs(green(blend1)-green(blend2)) <= tolerance){       bsize+=1;       blend1=blend2;     }      else {       possible=false;     }     if (bsize>bmax)
  possible=false;
}

// crappy string hack
c=(char)(random(25)); c=char(c+'a'+1); s=""; s=s+c;
buffer.stroke((int)red(original),(int)green(original),(int)blue(original),
255- ((float)bsize/float(bmax))*200
);

buffer.noFill();
buffer.ellipse( sX,sY,bsize,bsize);

image(buffer,0,0);

if (millis()-stime >= 20000){
stime=millis();
saveFrame("out/frame-#######.png");
}

buffer.endDraw();
}

void mousePressed(){
noLoop();
}

void mouseReleased(){
loop();
}

Don't forget to have an 'out' folder in the project folder and the image in the 'data' folder.
have a look here too...

Artwork for The Wall Magazine

Done with this huuuge image in photoshop. It covers an area as big as a projector screen. Some how my laptops 3 gigs of ram helped me do this one smoothly. Sometimes photoshop can be a pain, specially when you're trying to do something like this and resources are less.

Update [July 2009] : These days nothing is there over the wall magazine, so I get a nice view of my work daily in the college :

Gully Cricket poster

Table Tennis selection poster

Basketball selection trials poster

Badminton Match Poster

TumTube's Logo Design

Just finished the design of TumTube's logo. TumTube is going to be a major Indian video sharing website. A lot of improvement is going to be implemented to add social features and engage users to its exclusive contents.
Click here to checkout this piece of work in action.