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> This notebook will generate randomized cubism artworks inspired by Piet Mondrian Sorry to be pedantic. For people just discovering art from the early 20th ce
by tomcam 2y ago
> This notebook will generate randomized cubism artworks inspired by Piet Mondrian
Sorry to be pedantic. For people just discovering art from the early 20th century period, this fun project doesn't generate Cubist-style art. Cubism was a completely different genre. While Mondrian was inspired by Cubism in his earlier period, the art we think of when we think of Mondrian isn't Cubism by a long shot. Here's a good example of Cubism, Picasso's Girl with Mandolin:
https://www.pablopicasso.org/girl-with-mandolin.jsp#google_vignette https://www.pablopicasso.org/girl-with-mandolin.jsp#google_v...
And a side note. We nerds think we can generate Mondrians at will. Here's a "typical" Mondrian (he had many sub styles):
https://smarthistory.org/mondrian-composition-ii-in-red-blue-and-yellow/ https://smarthistory.org/mondrian-composition-ii-in-red-blue...
There's even a programming language named Piet ostensibly designed to let you generate Mondrians. It has been featured here on HN:
https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html
Notice the samples don't look anything like an actual Mondrian.
- hotstickyballs 2y agoI prefer these derivations over the red blue and yellow
- mcphage 2y agoI remember an article (long since lost) where a student in a class on generative art chose to try recreate Mondrians, and what he and the teacher discovered was just how painterly the originals were, and it was very difficult to generate something that actually looked like a Mondrian. I really ought to find that article again.
- joshu 2y ago> Piet is a programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings. sorry for being pedantic but you should delete the whole last section of your pedantic comment.
- tomcam 2y agoHow dare you be pedantic about my pedantry
- teo_zero 2y agoThank you, I thought exactly the same when I read that sentence. For a moment I doubted my memory was faulting me, but your comment confirmed my mental sanity.
- tomcam 2y agoI'm guessing the author skimmed the Wikipedia entry.
- abhgh 2y agoSince we are discussing Mondrians in the context of trees, I thought I would mention "Mondrian Forest" [1]. Interesting but relatively unknown algorithm to construct random forests over online data. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2673 https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2673
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