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This book is organized for artists, and is intended to teach programmers about art and artists about programming. After the first introductory chapter, each chapter discusses one of the seven elements of art and their digital interpretation and implementation.

Chapter 1 - Art and Vision

Online chapter 1 It seems obvious that to be a visual artist, one should be able to see. But what does that really mean? Seeing is more than simply detecting light or being able to form images on a film or retina or computer chip. Seeing is about being able to use images to make decisions or draw conclusions.

Chapter 2 - Line

Online chapter 2 The line element in art is used to define overall shape, delimit boundaries, create textures, and generally render visual aspects of any scene. It has been defined by artists as a point moving in space. 20th century artist Paul Klee is quoted as saying A line is a dot (a pixel) that went for a walk. That's an artistic view. What does it mean?

Chapter 3 - Value

Online chapter 3 The second of the seven elements of art that we'll deal with is value. This concerns how light or dark things are. Value can be an overall aspect of a work, or it can vary from place to place, but in all cases the scale we use is from the darkest value, which is black, to the lightest, which is white. Value underlies line and color, and getting the values correct might be more important than getting the colors correct.

Chapter 4 - Color

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Chapter 5 - Shape


Chapter 6 - Texture


Chapter 7 - Form


Chapter 8 - Space


Chapter 9 - Dynamism, The Eight Element

Dynamic artworks are ones that can change with time or by using some observation of the surroundings. This is a novel feature of generative art. Paintings and drawings could not respond to the environment, nor could they change visually in any measurable way. A dynamic artwork is, at its minimum, one that can change with time. We might call this an animation, which literally means to bring life to something. Additionally, the advent of modern electronics technology makes it possible for an artwork to see and hear, and this to respond visually to colors, music, people, and motion in the volume that surrounds it.