CRIMSON & SCARLET is another recursive tree algorithm based work group from about 2019-20.
many years ago, when i and a whole bunch of other openprocessing members started playing around with recursive tree algorithms, many different interpretations and ways were explored. the first approaches i made, which were rather crude and simple, have become increasingly refined and evolved from more graphic to painterly ways. at a certain point when i was developing the flowers with detailed petal shapes, i found that it immediately became naturalistic or even kinda cheesy, so i went back to working more consciously limited to just circles and lines.
Title:
CRIMSON & SCARLET
Year
2019
Medium
generative app
made with processing/p5js
image and vector output
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i have never really tried to pursue a pure naturalism, but have always kept the minimalist approach in focus in order to distract as little as possible from the main interest – the composition.
to only have circles and lines as building elements and to reduce the color concept to 3 or 4 basic colors, no color gradients, or at least a little bit within the flowers but with slight deviations?
finally the pink – green complementary color scheme did convince me, and to give it a more depth i later added the yellow and rare blue to it within the strokes.
