Recycled Ideas / Art
posted by Dzeni at 12:45 AMDoes anyone else out there occasionally recycle either concepts or params that they have used in the past? If you do recycle, does your audience notice and do they like it when old ideas are revisited?
Below are some images which have elements that have been "recycled"
The footprints are not new, they appeared a while ago in this image:
The two images below share a similar woven design generated from the same set of params:
and
Art generated with computers is really easy to recycle. The challenge here is to somehow incorporate a fresh perspective when resurrecting older work.
These images either have, or will feature on my personal blog in due course.
5 Comments:
Oh yes, I recycle my Apo params from time to time. Sometimes I end up with 'similar but different', sometimes an entirely different image. I do this especially when I've had one of those magic happy accidents, because I like to work how how I got what I got ;-)
Working with UF is different, in that I keep suitable layers for use as textures in other images but I rarely go back to the same basic structure.
This is a big issue for me as an online writer.
I'm sure that the one eyed monsters that index our work and present it for others to see (or not) can detect writing that is recycled but probably not pictures that are recycled.
But they also give prominence blog wise to the latest posts.
I spend a lot of time writing stuff I think is OK. It gets briefly exposed and then lost in the slush pile of the net (perhaps as it deserves to, although I think it deserves better).
If I rotated, thirty of my flash fictions through as a daily post, they would probably be read by more people but would the one eyed monsters hate me and ban me for ever from their listings?
Such are the musings of the Online Author :-(
I would much rather think about writing my next story ...
Thanks for posting these. I enjoy your little side images.
I am not sure if this would be considered recycling, but after doing this for a few years I have hundreds of starter images to draw from. When I begin building a new image, I usually scroll through the starters to see if I can find what I am looking for.
The starter images come when I am exploring the parameters of fractals. The process is, tweak parameters, find something interesting and save it, then repeat the process. Before long I'll have piles of shapes to draw from. This idea applies to UF and Apophysis. I usually get lost in the exploration process, which is a good thing. It's fun to find something new, save it, and then see where else that the parameter tweaks can take me.
I also take elements from old finished images and place them in new images. Now that I think of it, everything that I do has something from an old image in it so I guess that I do recycle. That could be the reason that I have been accused of having a style, which is a nice way of saying that many of my images look the same - not sure if that's good or bad :-)
I work a lot like Keith does. Like him, after so long I have a TON of started or explored layers/images and most of what i've made recently is the result of going back thru my folders, grabbing something that strikes my fancy, and continuing it "looking thru new eyes" sometimes years later. Amazing how different the direction something goes is when you go back without any preconceived notions.
I might go a bit further in that I have a "layer library" system - and fair recall capability to remember I have something even at my age, lol - and save lots of shapes and textures. Saves having to "reinvent the wheel" all the time. Especially since, even if I remember I made something, I certainly wouldn't remember just how I got it to that point. I also have upr files where I've got sometimes a dozen versions of a particular formula and location saved with different parameters, gradients and/or ucl's. I wonder - is it a "tweak" if one tweaks his own image? Hmm...have to get the legal team to look into whether "I" can sue "me" and "myself" for copyright infringement! LOL
c-ya!
Rick
Thanks all for your comments. It was interesting to see how others use (and reuse) what they have created.
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