Random Art Generator

2014 Ilkka Kokkarinen, ilkka.kokkarinen@gmail.com. Requires Java to run.

The Java program generates random pieces of abstract art. Use the mouse button to move to the next art piece, and the middle mouse button to switch between the Hilbert Curve, RGB, metallic Grayscale and HSB colour models. The right mouse button can be used to save the source code that generated the image, and you can open it in text editor to tweak it around.

You can use the control panel to adjust the probabilities of the various types of nodes in the tree that determines the art. The button "Load Textures" allows you to include image files and folders to be used as leaf nodes to generate the art. Simply select a folder to recursively read all the images in its subfolders. The button "Load Source" loads the image source code from a file.

The source code is available in the jar file RandomArt.jar (DropBox link).

Some example images of the sort of art this program creates:

• One Vivid colours in the HSB space with a shape tiling minimum distance point lights.
• Two Tiling up mirrored sine curves for an ornamental shape with graffiti on top of it.
• Three Stalks of light in HSB color space.
• Four Tiled superellipsoids generate a row of neon lights.
• Five Superellipsoid bubbles with sharp edges and flat colours.
• Six Busy colour texture with both brightness and hue changing in high frequency.
• Seven Sine tiling of a serpentine transformation produces a twisted little art gallery.
• Eight Voronoi tiling with Manhattan distance in Hilbert color space.
• Nine The Hilbert color space and underlying texture image create a hand-drawn result.
• Ten Depth two tree uses a microscopic texture to modify Hilbert color space for a painterly effect.