Yep. Have been playing around with Processing and it seems fascinating that all the programs I normally illustrate with generally work around the principles of Mathematics. So here’s what I constructed from specifying co-ordinates:
Heres’ another playing with the MouseY and MouseX function forcing it to create some replicas of sorts while tracing where your mouse is and calculating the color variations:
Oh yes. Did I mention he BLINKS?!! :)
As a regular subscriber to Smashing Magazine’s feed, they recently published this amazing article about creating Divine Proportions for the web. This ratio used throughout the history of Art from Leonardo da Vinci through to Le Corbusier, its pretty interesting to see its ramifications into web design & layout.
Here’s more about its history of the Golden Ratio from Wikipedia. And if one is keen on using the principles of grids in their web layout, it makes good reading from Antonio Carusone about his process in designing a site layout based on the grid at his Aisle One blog.
