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I like to write about interesting art projects, so give me a heads up if you have new project and I'll write about it.


Don Relyea
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Hair Particle Drawing

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hair particle drawing project now in openframeworks

  
various Sketches of Meret Oppenheim in OF
Click on the above thumbnails to enlarge

For the new Openframworks version(opens project page with source code for hair class) of my old hair particle drawing project(old director version) I have chosen to switch gears from the politcal satire for now and I have chosen a new subject for this exploration. I have decided to do a large portrait of Meret Oppenheim. Oppenheim was the the artist who made the very famous fur lined teacup. The photo this image is sampled from was taken in 1937 by Man Ray.

The above sketches and the below video are just a start. I plan to do a large scale print of this piece and I may have to go through several iterations before I get it just right.

hair particle sketch of Meret Oppenheim from Don Relyea on Vimeo.

Source Code
So you can get an idea of how this works I have included the main source code for the hair particle class with comments on the new project page. The class is pretty simple and works well. In the update function of testapp I am just poll an array of particles to see which ones are active and which ones are not. The ones that are not active get assigned to draw a new hair particle.

I was really surprised how easy it was to port this project over from Director. I was even more surprised how much faster it runs in openframeworks. The performance boost moving to openframeworks is truly impressive.

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