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I can't say I like this one much, even after looking at the site mentioned in the caption (allrgb.com). This picture is just a vector of Rainbow Dash on top of incoherent, ugly noise. The cool thing about the allrgb.com pictures is that they actually depict something (whether a clearly visible photo or a specific design), while this work is just a chaotic mess where it's impossible to make out anything.
I appreciate the reference to Seurat, but the execution is just applying a noise filter on a vector. The result looks like a badly transmitted file more than it resembles art. There’s more to Pontilism than placing dots at random, and especially so when you’re just letting a machine place the dots for you
Artist: instead of explaining that the tool you used made the clouds hard to see, and suggesting the viewer squint as a remedy (!), why didn’t you just fix the problem? Use a more art friendly tool, or (gasp) draw the clouds yourself? I know that Bob Ross makes everything look easy, but drawing clouds is pretty forgiving as art tasks go.
Artist: instead of explaining that the tool you used made the clouds hard to see, and suggesting the viewer squint as a remedy (!), why didn’t you just fix the problem? Use a more art friendly tool, or (gasp) draw the clouds yourself? I know that Bob Ross makes everything look easy, but drawing clouds is pretty forgiving as art tasks go.
I didn't know allrgb.com so thank you for making me discover this amazing madness.
That being said, I'll have to agree with others here (>>JudgeDeadd and >>GroaningGreyAgony). It's hard to distinguish anything aside from Rainbow Dash. And, in a way, the fact we can clearly RD doesn't play in its favor for me. You see, if the whole piece would have been a chaotic mess with vaguely shaped form, it would have been more consistent and the piece would have been some kind of a challenge for the reader to grasp what it is suppose to represent. I sometimes like vague arts, where shapes and colors aren't clearly defined. It can creates some nice atmosphere. But here, the contrast in clearness between RD and the background (which is too messy for me) don't seem to be done on purpose, but rather a coincidence from the technique you seemed to have used (which my predecessors have described).
Moreover, the technique you used to render this doesn't seem to be connected at all with the piece and what it represents. Knowing that each pixel has a different color doesn't make any sense for me, it doesn't add a new meaning, and I believe that the technique has to be deeply connected with the meaning you want to convey.
My advice would be to either go for a full mess, challenging your audience to decipher your piece (it can be badly received, though), or make the piece much clearer.
I hope this won't stop you from submitting any future work, and thank you for sharing this one, even though it didn't really appeal to me.
That being said, I'll have to agree with others here (>>JudgeDeadd and >>GroaningGreyAgony). It's hard to distinguish anything aside from Rainbow Dash. And, in a way, the fact we can clearly RD doesn't play in its favor for me. You see, if the whole piece would have been a chaotic mess with vaguely shaped form, it would have been more consistent and the piece would have been some kind of a challenge for the reader to grasp what it is suppose to represent. I sometimes like vague arts, where shapes and colors aren't clearly defined. It can creates some nice atmosphere. But here, the contrast in clearness between RD and the background (which is too messy for me) don't seem to be done on purpose, but rather a coincidence from the technique you seemed to have used (which my predecessors have described).
Moreover, the technique you used to render this doesn't seem to be connected at all with the piece and what it represents. Knowing that each pixel has a different color doesn't make any sense for me, it doesn't add a new meaning, and I believe that the technique has to be deeply connected with the meaning you want to convey.
My advice would be to either go for a full mess, challenging your audience to decipher your piece (it can be badly received, though), or make the piece much clearer.
I hope this won't stop you from submitting any future work, and thank you for sharing this one, even though it didn't really appeal to me.
This looks like how my head feels when I haven't eaten all day and try to walk through Times Square
I like the idea here, but I don't think it turned out quite well enough. If the entire thing looked like Rainbow does, it might have been a pretty great picture. I can see some clouds when I squint though.
Artist, I just want to commend you for rising up to a really unique challenge. The piece has been getting some beatdowns on its aesthetics, but I don't think quite enough credit has been given to the constraints under which it was assembled. The whole "split the color table into 2^19 unique entries and use them once each" thing is kind of like if one of us authors handicapped themselves by writing a story without the letter E — it's certainly been done, and the mere act of assembling one is worthy of applause but not fanatical praise. However, that's for the constraint in general — keep in mind the context of the Writeoffs and the crazy time limit!
The site linked in the alt-text has examples of work that are, frankly, much more aesthetically pleasing — but the really mind-blowing ones are by just one or two artists, who presumably have spent a great deal of time honing their tools. Far more common are the ones that are just rainbow-esque or largely-gray designs. In short, I'm trying to judge this not against the other pieces directly but against what the chosen medium allows, as well as the state of the art in the chosen medium, and I think that results in a lot of impressiveness here which is invisible on the standard aesthetic level.
In short, artist: For what this is, I think it's being aggressively undervalued by the other voters. So take heart that this is impressive nonetheless.
I do think that the clouds should have been better defined; I don't know the extra amount of work involved. I'm assuming they were a casualty of the deadline.
(As a final note, I was vaguely disappointed that the background doesn't work as a magic-eye 3-D image, but that would have been a really big ask.)
The site linked in the alt-text has examples of work that are, frankly, much more aesthetically pleasing — but the really mind-blowing ones are by just one or two artists, who presumably have spent a great deal of time honing their tools. Far more common are the ones that are just rainbow-esque or largely-gray designs. In short, I'm trying to judge this not against the other pieces directly but against what the chosen medium allows, as well as the state of the art in the chosen medium, and I think that results in a lot of impressiveness here which is invisible on the standard aesthetic level.
In short, artist: For what this is, I think it's being aggressively undervalued by the other voters. So take heart that this is impressive nonetheless.
I do think that the clouds should have been better defined; I don't know the extra amount of work involved. I'm assuming they were a casualty of the deadline.
(As a final note, I was vaguely disappointed that the background doesn't work as a magic-eye 3-D image, but that would have been a really big ask.)
I seem to have neglected to comment on this picture.
A few weeks ago, I discovered allrgb.com, and I thought it would be interesting to try to create an image like theirs sometime. Rainbow Dash seemed like an especially appropriate subject for such a picture, and this prompt seemed like a good time to make a picture of Rainbow Dash.
I would have liked to create a picture with all 256^3 possible colors in it, but I think this round would be long over before my computer finished, and the resulting picture would have been too big for this site anyway. I think this size worked as a reasonable compromise though.
In case anyone didn't realize, I wrote the program to create this picture from scratch. The basic algorithm was actually pretty easy to put together. Adjusting it to make it run in a reasonable amount of time and create a decent output was a bit of a struggle though.
As for the picture, I started out with this image that I created from some vectors I found. I probably should have put something a bit better together, but I was running low on time and didn't have much to work with. I really would have liked to have used a picture of Rainbow Dash doing a Sonic Rainboom, just for all of the colors, but I couldn't find anything to use.
When I ran that picture through my program without doing anything special to it, this was the result. Not too bad, but I thought it would look better if Rainbow stood out more.
So after making a few adjustments to the program, I eventually produced the picture I submitted. Okay, that's better, but what if I made the sun and clouds stand out more too?
Unfortunately, this was the result. It might have turned out better if the sun had solid borders instead of gradients and if the clouds looked a bit different, but time and resource constraints got in the way. But even then, the background probably still would have ended up rather purpleish like this. Again, it might have also turned out better if I had made a Sonic Rainboom picture instead of one that's 90% blue, but oh well.
Also, it took something like 30 minutes for my program to create each image, so the entire process was rather slow. I stayed up way too late finishing this, and I only got it in a few hours before the deadline.
>>Fenton
I'm curious to know what you think of the second picture I liked above, and how you think it compares. I did consider submitting that version instead, but I liked this one more.
>>horizon
I'm glad someone here understands me. :p
Yeah, I know that this didn't turn out looking the best, but I was quite happy to see that someone understood what I was going for and appreciated it.
And thank you to everyone else who offered opinions as well.
>>JudgeDeadd
>>GroaningGreyAgony
>>Dubs_Rewatcher
>>Trick_Question
A few weeks ago, I discovered allrgb.com, and I thought it would be interesting to try to create an image like theirs sometime. Rainbow Dash seemed like an especially appropriate subject for such a picture, and this prompt seemed like a good time to make a picture of Rainbow Dash.
I would have liked to create a picture with all 256^3 possible colors in it, but I think this round would be long over before my computer finished, and the resulting picture would have been too big for this site anyway. I think this size worked as a reasonable compromise though.
In case anyone didn't realize, I wrote the program to create this picture from scratch. The basic algorithm was actually pretty easy to put together. Adjusting it to make it run in a reasonable amount of time and create a decent output was a bit of a struggle though.
As for the picture, I started out with this image that I created from some vectors I found. I probably should have put something a bit better together, but I was running low on time and didn't have much to work with. I really would have liked to have used a picture of Rainbow Dash doing a Sonic Rainboom, just for all of the colors, but I couldn't find anything to use.
When I ran that picture through my program without doing anything special to it, this was the result. Not too bad, but I thought it would look better if Rainbow stood out more.
So after making a few adjustments to the program, I eventually produced the picture I submitted. Okay, that's better, but what if I made the sun and clouds stand out more too?
Unfortunately, this was the result. It might have turned out better if the sun had solid borders instead of gradients and if the clouds looked a bit different, but time and resource constraints got in the way. But even then, the background probably still would have ended up rather purpleish like this. Again, it might have also turned out better if I had made a Sonic Rainboom picture instead of one that's 90% blue, but oh well.
Also, it took something like 30 minutes for my program to create each image, so the entire process was rather slow. I stayed up way too late finishing this, and I only got it in a few hours before the deadline.
>>Fenton
I'm curious to know what you think of the second picture I liked above, and how you think it compares. I did consider submitting that version instead, but I liked this one more.
>>horizon
I'm glad someone here understands me. :p
Yeah, I know that this didn't turn out looking the best, but I was quite happy to see that someone understood what I was going for and appreciated it.
And thank you to everyone else who offered opinions as well.
>>JudgeDeadd
>>GroaningGreyAgony
>>Dubs_Rewatcher
>>Trick_Question
>>The_Letter_J
I definitely like it more. It feels more consistent to me. Rainbow Dash still stands out from the rest of the piece but this time, her colors merged more effectively with the background. We still don't see the background enough (or we see RD too much), but it's definitely better (at least for me).
Now that I saw the original picture, I may guess what could be done to improve a rendering with the program you created. If more elements are more contrasted with the background, like the clouds and the sun, they would have probably stand out more, just like Rainbow Dash. I think the difference in colors between the clouds and the sky was too low (only shades of light blue) to make them visible once you have run the program. I don't know, I'm probably wrong.
I definitely like it more. It feels more consistent to me. Rainbow Dash still stands out from the rest of the piece but this time, her colors merged more effectively with the background. We still don't see the background enough (or we see RD too much), but it's definitely better (at least for me).
Now that I saw the original picture, I may guess what could be done to improve a rendering with the program you created. If more elements are more contrasted with the background, like the clouds and the sun, they would have probably stand out more, just like Rainbow Dash. I think the difference in colors between the clouds and the sky was too low (only shades of light blue) to make them visible once you have run the program. I don't know, I'm probably wrong.
>>Fenton
No, I'm pretty sure you're right. I haven't really tried to verify it, but I am fairly certain that part of the problem was that the picture was mostly blue. If there had been more places for all of the mostly-red and mostly-green pixels to fit in, I'm sure the whole thing would have looked better.
And like I said, I was pretty close to submitting that version, so I don't mind you liking it more.
No, I'm pretty sure you're right. I haven't really tried to verify it, but I am fairly certain that part of the problem was that the picture was mostly blue. If there had been more places for all of the mostly-red and mostly-green pixels to fit in, I'm sure the whole thing would have looked better.
And like I said, I was pretty close to submitting that version, so I don't mind you liking it more.