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Contest: recreate Mondrian painting in code, win exposition in museum

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Re: Contest: recreate Mondrian painting in code, win exposition in museum

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Post by madethemcry »

Samuel_Michon wrote: post #20
specialist wrote: post #14

I'm a little bit sad that such awesomeness can be reduced to an algorithm. As my graphic designer friends used to joke, "There's a Photoshop filter for that!" I'd be really impressed if a computer program simulated the -tactile- texture and gamut as well. Mondrian's New York period paintings are deceptively simple. I've read a teacher's writeup of his student's efforts to recreate Mondrian's Composition (I think). No…

“I've read a teacher's writeup of his student's efforts to recreate Mondrian's Composition (I think). Not easy.” Here you go: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-elkins/post_1036_b_75666...

such a cool analysis. thanks!

Re: Contest: recreate Mondrian painting in code, win exposition in museum

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Post by kens »

There's a famous 1965 experiment to generate synthetic Mondrians by computer. Most people couldn't tell which was real, and people actually liked the fake better. This was some of the earliest computer art, done on an IBM 7090. (Just a historical note, not a comment on the current contest.)

http://www.newmediacaucus.org/wp/routing-mondrian-the-a-mich...

http://www.dam.org/mix/noll-all-artworks-4-computer-patterns...

Re: Contest: recreate Mondrian painting in code, win exposition in museum

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Post by pejoculant »

I wrote some code a little while ago to do something like this (although I wasn't trying to produce Victory Boogie Woogie in particular)[1]. It generates samples from a probability distribution over kd-trees called the Mondrian Process [2]

[1] http://whatididonthetrain.blogspot.com/2011/02/mondrian-was-...

[2] http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~teh/research/npbayes/RoyTeh2009a....

Re: Contest: recreate Mondrian painting in code, win exposition in museum

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Post by drv »

vindia wrote: post #2

Rules are in Dutch, so I did a quick translation of the most important parts Generate Mondriaan's Victory Boogie Woogie in code Everyone who can make squares appear on a screen can join until March 7th 2013 Submit your code to elegant@setup.nl Rules * Any programming language can be used * Please do try to document your code as good as possible and add a little description how it works, as the judges will not speak a…

As a side note, the Google translation from Dutch to English seems pretty bad. I submitted a few improved translations; I did not know this feature existed before, and I'm curious how it works behind the scenes. Presumably a human has to read them to verify they are correct; I don't know Dutch, so I am making educated guesses based on the existing translation and online Dutch to English dictionaries.
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