Treeleaf Art Circle: Enso

[RichardH]

Just to drive this point, home -- all operations in the sort are reversible. No information is lost during the sort - the original image is still there, just manifested in a different form.

Gassho,
Sekishi #sat #belabouredtheobvious

Something about that matters.... I don't know how, but it does.

Gasho
Daizan

Sat today

[Jakuden]

You guys are so awesome. I feel like my "right brain" is getting a badly needed education.

Gassho,
Jakuden
SatToday

[RichardH]

Experimenting with different brush and smudge settings on Procreate (on ipad). Inspired by the potential of a tablet as a canvas... also just realized this could go here.

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.... it is a study for the halo behind a character in a graphic novel


Gassho
Daizan

sat today

[Sekishi]

Love the color in your halo Daizan!

Here is a little iPad doodle enso with just a touch of color:



Gassho,
Sekishi #sat

[Sekishi]

Another iPad doodle enso, lightly pixelsorted.



Gassho,
Sekishi #sat

[Sekishi]

Last one. An unexpected enso is displayed when uploading a photo via Tapatalk:



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Gassho,
Sekishi #sat

[Ryumon]

I am useless at creating art. However, I have this beautiful Enzo by Kaz Tanahashi on the wall of my office.



Gassho,

Kirk

[Oheso]

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[Amelia]

Kirk, every time I drop by that thread I admire how beautiful that enso is. Is it an original? I have seen a few of his ensos before and I am always blown away by the use of color.

Gassho, sat today

[Tai Shi]

Sekishi, thank you for introducing the creative, and technically beautiful interlacing and recitations of four part harmony, and all voices inverted and then repeated back on themselves. Of course you know the work of Philip Glass.
Thank you so very much Sekishi.

Tai Shi
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Gassho

[Marie]

A Dharma sister gave me this mala before I left for a Buddhist College when I was younger (schools inside some of the monasteries in Asia where monastics, and sometimes lay people, study). Her gift felt like an important moment at the time, and I've thought the mala looks like an enso.IMG_0048.JPG

[Sekishi]

Yesterday for a work project I was given some very low resolution images that needed to be used in a very high resolution application. Scaling them up resulted in unslightly pixelation that required LOTS of editing and retouching. This left me thinking about the difference betweens scaling digital photos (with square pixels) and film photos (with round film grains). THAT sent me down a path of writing a little application for turning "square pixels" into "round pixels" (e.g. by drawing circles). During the writing I started playing with the idea of allowing the user to vary the circle size and transparency while the process is underway - to make it more interactive.

After some playing around, here is what I ended up with:

- On the source image, pick a random pixel and get its color
- On the target image, draw a circle using the color and location of the random pixel
- Allow the user to vary the size of the circle at any time
- Allow the user to vary the transparency of the circle
- Add some randomness to the size and transparency (e.g. the user has some control, but there is constant natural variation)
- Repeat (at least) a few hundred thousand times...

I found that the result could be sort of "painterly" by starting with large transparent circles (analogous to a "wash" or "underpainting") and moving towards smaller less transparent circles to fill in details.

I am useless at creating art. However, I have this beautiful Enzo by Kaz Tanahashi on the wall of my office.

So I took Kirk's Enzo by Kaz and let the system play with it for an hour or so. I'd come by periodically and push the circles smaller and a little less transparent. The result is a circle made of circles!
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Since this whole thing was precipitated by thinking about how to enlarge images, here is the actual image, twice as large as the version kirk posted:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jg79iiq0fqqppzo/snapshot-107-enso-final.png?dl=0

Anyhow, thats my silly project to avoid sleep last night.

Gassho,
Sekishi #sat

[Kotei]

Hello,

found some leftover oakwood veneer and decided to play with it.
Thinking about such a simple form with complex associations, the Möbius strip came to my mind.
Children play with it, experts didn't knew how to model it until recently.
A surface in the 3 dimensional space, with only one side and one boundary.
Cutting the strip along it's middle line will not result in two - but one with doubled length.
Just playing with wood and trees and frames... Curious, how fast it will fade away.

Gassho,
Kotei sattoday.

[Mp]

Hey Kotai,

Would love to see your work, but the video says unavailable. =(

Gassho
Shingen

s@today

[Sekishi]

Would love to see your work, but the video says unavailable. =(

Same here. Could it be set to private?

Gassho,
Sekishi #sat