My sketch converts an image to ellipses, but purposefully reads the pixels of the jpeg file incorrectly. It’s kind of hard to see the face, but it’s in there somewhere.

Face

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what is the sound of a feeling?
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So I decided to create a sort of generative machine which would churn out random shapes that I could then find my own face in. I wanted to do this in 3D, since one has many more degrees of freedom when creating complex shapes within 3 dimensional space. I brought in a Viewer class that I had created for previous projects which allows me to move around a 3D environment using WASD and the mouse:

I then created a Blob class which would construct itself out of a user defined number of triangular polygons:

Next, I inserted one such Blob into a P3D rendered Processing environment, with a camera controlled using a Viewer class (also way too many libraries imported):

When I ran it, instead of blobby masses of triangles which I expected, I instead got shapes very similar looking to neurons:

Since, using a more inclusive definition of ‘face’ which I myself have created right now in this very moment, the face includes what is behind the face, this still qualifies as a face, and a self portrait as well.

 

void setup() {
  size(300, 400);
}

void draw() {
  background(#ffffff);
  //SKIN
  fill(#fdeee2);
  noStroke();
  ellipse(150, 175, width, 350);
  //EYES
  strokeWeight(2);
  stroke(#fdddc3);
  fill(#ffffff);
  ellipse(90, 130, 70, 30);
  ellipse(200, 130, 70, 30);
  //eyeballs
  noStroke();
  fill(#5ebacf);
  ellipse(92, 130, 30, 30);
  ellipse(198, 130, 30, 30);
  //mouth
  fill(#5c5639);
  ellipse(150, 265, 125, 7);
  //nose
  fill(#fdddc3);
  quad(137, 150, 158, 150, 180, 230, 115, 230);
  //hair
  fill(#cfb774);
  beginShape();
  vertex(100, 0);
  vertex(200, 0);
  vertex(280, 60);
  vertex(310, 120);
  vertex(300, 180);
  vertex(270, 100);
  vertex(200, 40);
  vertex(100, 40);
  vertex(30, 100);
  vertex(0, 180);
  vertex(-10, 120);
  vertex(20, 60);
  endShape(CLOSE);
  //body
  fill(#395082);
  quad(100, 340, 200, 340, 250, 400, 60, 400);
}

I wanted to create a scaling portrait which had a bunch of bold lines and randomly filled colors into the image to contrast a gray background, and so I did.

The pink one is my favorite.

Here is my code:

AlexFace

GDBFace

selfPortrait-mbk

 

Made in processing, so screenshot:

and the code:

 

 

size(500,700);

background(255,89,143);
noStroke();

fill(6,106,160);
ellipse(250,280, 372,400);
beginShape();
  vertex(72,228);
  vertex(37,312);
  vertex(107,285);
endShape(CLOSE);
beginShape();
  vertex(76,229);
  vertex(40,470);
  vertex(101,430);
  vertex(75,480);
  vertex(190,440);
endShape(CLOSE);
beginShape();
  vertex(314,430);
  vertex(394,488);
  vertex(380,426);
  vertex(464,479);
  vertex(437,277);
endShape(CLOSE);

fill(241,201,173);
rect(215,425, 75,130);

fill(244,220,189);
ellipse(250,300, 300,340);


stroke(0);
strokeWeight(8);
line(118,307, 149,320);
line(369,307, 344,320); 

stroke(4,73,111);
noFill();
curve(163,316, 166,235, 225,214, 220,289);
curve(282,289, 287,214, 346,235, 343,316);

stroke(245,154,141);
curve(250,270, 204,406, 286,406, 250,270);

stroke(255);
strokeWeight(5);
fill(0,162,232);
ellipse(180,320, 60,110);
ellipse(310,320, 60, 110);

noStroke();
fill(255);
ellipse(164,340, 20,40);
ellipse(295,340, 20,40);

fill(6,106,160);
beginShape();
  vertex(77,325);
  vertex(134,390);
  vertex(102,260);
  vertex(145,264);
  vertex(170,216);
  vertex(175,260);
  vertex(261,259);
  vertex(319,178);
  vertex(354,286);
  vertex(347,368);
  vertex(414,284);
  vertex(392,163);
  vertex(326,103);
  vertex(224,80);
  vertex(177,95);
  vertex(91,191);
endShape(CLOSE);

fill(255,201,14);
curve(87,900, 126,566, 370,566, 407,900);
beginShape();
  vertex(126,566);
  vertex(370,566);
  vertex(412,700);
  vertex(91,700);
endShape(CLOSE);