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Five photos: three layers and two masks.

#CreativeCoding #shaders #glsl #kotlin #openrndr #photography #photo #nature #plants #abstract

Black leaves on orange-red textured background, and golden plants on top. Painterly non realistic look.

A close up of a tree mixed with a #photo of a #forest and a close up of a stone.

A feature I added today is the ability to drag and drop images into the program, which is great in combination of browsing photo thumbnails with my OS.

Next I'll add dropping video files and choosing a frame (in a recent trip I shot more videos than photos). The resolution will be lower, but when mixed with higher resolution layers it's probably fine.

#photography #creativeCoding #OPENRNDR #Kotlin #nature #trees

An abstract photo resulting from combining three other photos. Low saturation, except a central shape tinted somewhat pink.

Another photo composition created with the program I'm writing.

I like the contrast between the very monochromatic photo and the layer of rainbow-like colors.

Now I can not only export the image, but also the configuration to reproduce the image. The settings are also saved when closing the program and automatically loaded when starting it again, so I can continue where I left off.

#photo #photography #creativeCoding #OPENRNDR #Kotlin #nature #technology

A composition of three photos: a foggy forest without leaves reflected on water (most visible), the rainbow colors on a DVD seen through a photo of plant leaves.

One or two days ago I saw in Mastodon a program similar to this, written in #p5js . I wanted to reply to that post but I can't find it.

In any case, here a similar (but interactive) design written in #Kotlin with #OPENRNDR

See how to produce screenshots is just one line of code, and the `contentScale` argument results in 3x resolution, so the window is 800x800 pixels and the screenshot is 2400x2400 pixels).

#creativeCoding #Mathart #algorithm

Code generated image with white background. There are 30 rows and 30 columns, in each cell there's a short straight black line with varying orientation. Most lines have an orientation similar to neighboring ones, but in some areas this does not happen. It seems that some kind of logic drives the orientations, but what that logic is is not obvious.

A screenshot with the following code:

import org.openrndr.application
import org.openrndr.color.ColorRGBa
import org.openrndr.extensions.Screenshots
import org.openrndr.extra.shapes.primitives.grid
import org.openrndr.math.Polar

fun main() = application {
configure {
width = 800
height = 800
}
program {
extend(Screenshots()) { contentScale = 3.0 }
extend {
drawer.clear(ColorRGBa.WHITE)
drawer.strokeWeight = 2.0
drawer.bounds.grid(30, 30, 20.0, 20.0).flatten().forEach {
val diff = Polar.fromVector(it.center - mouse.position)
val offset = Polar(
diff.theta * (10.0 / (1.0 + diff.radius * 0.01)),
it.width * 0.4
).cartesian
drawer.lineSegment(it.center - offset, it.center + offset)
}
}
}
}

This is one of my favorite montages. The main organic shapes were rendered using a program I wrote last year and it is displayed on top of a starry night. A close-up photo of lichen sets the transparency to blend the other two pictures. I really like the grain that makes the code generated shapes more organic and old looking.

#photography #abstractArt #abstract #OPENRNDR #creativeCoding #kotlin #dark #sky #night #noai

A composition of three photos: a starry sky at night, a code generated organic design, and a texture of lichen on a rock

I'm writing a program to combine photos I shot.

So far it's rather simple: I can choose 3 photos, a blend mode and a color. It's enough to have fun already.

#photography #abstractArt #abstract #OPENRNDR #creativeCoding #kotlin

A photo montage using 3 images: a sunset from an airplane, water drops on a window on winter and a plant leaf.

Small bang simulation using compute shaders.

Here some uncompressed versions:

https://hamoid.com/tmp/smallbang01.webp
https://hamoid.com/tmp/smallbang02.webp
https://hamoid.com/tmp/smallbang03.webp

#creativeCoding #algorithm #noAI #generativeArt #OPENRNDR #GLSL #kotlin

Code generated image with a dark checkered background covering most of the image, some bright particle clusters with warm colors and some black trails from the movement of the particles.

Genuary#13+21: Self portrait Bauhaus Poster

How's the self portrait prompt going?
Well, I decided to combine my previous effort with the Bauhaus Poster prompt.

I made sure to add the 'Clown' bit so you know it's me.

#genuary13 #genuary21 #genuary #genuary2026 #generativeart #openrndr #kotlin #javacv #bauhaus

I'm not entirely sure where I'm going with this quite yet, but I've got some ideas... Let's see how those turn out...

#genuary13 #genuary #genuary2026 #generativeart #openrndr #kotlin #javacv

A program I wrote during Saturday's Creative Code Jam.

It's inspired by the Hilbert Sort algorithm, and asking myself the question: in what ways would I manually sort a fixed list of points, while generating a contour and avoiding intersections?

I thought that if I try many times I can discover algorithms in my head, then convert them into code.

The program is about 200 lines long and written in #Kotlin using the #OPENRNDR #CreativeCoding framework.

#geometry #math

A thick hobby curve with 51 white points with black contour. The points are scattered inside an invisible circle. The closed curve is shaded with a gradient along its length from cyan to blue and back, and across its width by increasing the red component towards the edges.

Genuary#12: Boxes Only

The boxes only prompt seems like a natural fit to explore the rigid body physics that JBox2D has to offer...

One could even argue that's very much thinking *inside* the box. 🥁💥

#genuary12 #genuary #genuary2026 #generativeart #openrndr #kotlin #jbox2d #rigidbody

Genuary#05: Write "Genuary". Avoid using a font.

More soft bodies for Genuary#05...

Wrote Genuary ✅
Didn't use a font ✅
Confetti 🎉

#genuary5 #genuary #genuary2026 #generativeart #openrndr #kotlin #jbox2d #softbody

The experience so far has been relatively smooth and quite fun. OPENRNDR really comes packed with a big arsenal of tools & extensions. Tons of stuff to discover!
And Kotlin? Well,.. if there's one thing I've noticed, it's that there's a lot of syntactic sugar.
And boy, do I love sugar!

If you want to play around with it, the code's on my github! (dxviie)

#genuary2 #genuary #genuary2026 #generativeart #openrndr #kotlin #jbox2d #softbody

Shading contours in #OPENRNDR

Explained at
https://openrndr.discourse.group/t/colorizing-strokes-along-its-length-and-width/764

#CreativeCoding #glsl #shader #kotlin

A thick, code-generated contour with a few curves on a white background. The contour is shaded with a 2D gradient: PINK to CYAN along its length, and across its width its darker on the edges and brighter at the center, making it look somewhat 3D.

A thick, code-generated contour with a few curves on a white background. The contour is PINK at the start and CYAN at the end.

A thick, code-generated contour with a few curves on a white background. The contour is shaded with a 2D gradient: PINK to CYAN along its length, and towards darker versions of those colors across its width.

A texture I generated earlier this year, with four or five G'MIC filters applied: vignetting, blurred edges, subtle random color tints and some parts are now desaturated.

#CreativeCoding #generative #OPENRNDR #gimp #gmic #kotlin #texture