Chuck Close Aesthetic
| April 20th, 2009_THE HORSE IN MOTION
Last night I was engaging in some productive procrastination, when I came across a particular work by Scott Blake [aka barcodeart man] known as the Free Chuck Close Art project. A painting is broken into a grid, extracting each of the many unique marks that make up the rasterization of of a portrait. They are then used to ChuckClose’ify any image provided by the user.
At the bottom of the page there is an animation of Muybridge’s The Horse in Motion run through this Free Chuck Close process:
Upon seeing it, I was immediately reminded of some earlier research I had done on the JPEG image header [using the very same raw material], where I had discovered a similar mark [or so I consider], which I dubbed the Chuck Close Aesthetic.
_AND THEN….
… I was inspired to work on a new tool, which could/should/shall repeat such an effect on any given image. I’ve drawing out a basic model of how it could work, and may begin work on it after bringing text2image to version 2.0. Until then, I’ll work on uploading some of the better examples of this research and share the results.
