{"id":888,"date":"2014-03-04T20:18:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T04:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/?p=888"},"modified":"2014-03-05T10:49:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T18:49:41","slug":"10-point-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/10-point-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Point Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"

I woke up with a question. “Can I create a painting starting with randomly placed dots?” I then laid there thinking through the mathematics. “For any number of points, n, how many lines can you draw between them?” It turns out to be a simple progression. 1+2+3+4…(n-1). I also realized that you can draw an infinite number of curves through any two points. There are a lot of possibilities with just a few dots. I decided to try 10 dots. You can draw 45 lines through ten dots. So, that gives you a lot of choices.<\/p>\n

I used the Sketch Club app on my iPad to try out the idea.<\/p>\n

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10 Point Construction Process<\/p><\/div>\n

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  1. I first made 10 random dots in one layer.<\/li>\n
  2. In another layer I drew 7 lines through pairs of dots. Notice I used just a subset of the 45 possible lines and I didn’t use all the dots.<\/li>\n
  3. I hid the lines and drew 5 curves in another layer. This time I used all 10 dots.<\/li>\n
  4. I showed both the lines and the curves.<\/li>\n
  5. I filled the areas between the lines and curves with six colors.<\/li>\n
  6. I colored the lines and curves black.<\/li>\n
  7. I turned the canvas 90 degrees counter clockwise.<\/li>\n
  8. I used the Waterlogue app to add texture.<\/li>\n
  9. I used the Distressed FX app to alter the contrast and color balance and to add a little more texture.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Here’s the finished first experiment.<\/p>\n

    \"10<\/a>

    10 Point Construction #1<\/p><\/div>\n

    Next I used the same 10 random dots in another application. Inkpad uses vector graphics. It’s easier to create lines and smooth curves. I then used Sketch Club to fill in with color.<\/p>\n

    \"10<\/a>

    10 Point Construction #2<\/p><\/div>\n

    The next day I tried some additional variations. I added a texture, I varied the colors, and I tried the kaleidoscope filter.<\/p>\n

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    10 Point Construction Variations<\/p><\/div>\n

    Conclusions<\/strong>: I found this to be a good creative exercise. It’s an expansion of “doodling and noodling” where you start with something random and then make something out of it. All media evolve from a series of creative choices that take you in directions that you didn’t know existed when you started. It’s important to practice exploring without fear. Digital media allow you to explore a variety of choices. This process of building on randomness is one that can be generalized and used in other media. Any creative work is a combination of chance and choices. We need to embrace chaos, trust our judgements, try many variations, rest, review our work, and (if necessary) try again with renewed vigor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I woke up with a question. “Can I create a painting starting with randomly placed dots?” I then laid there thinking through the mathematics. “For any number of points, n, how many lines can you draw between them?” It turns out to be a simple progression. 1+2+3+4…(n-1). I also realized that you can draw an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-touchart","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3xTIN-ek","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}