Sam Dunnington, Jun Cheung and Chike Abuah

Final Design Proposal
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1.  Design Statement
 
Our image will explore color, texture and the illusion of depth. The image will be inspired by pictures of various nebulae, and will try to provide the audience with the same feeling of vastness and expansion that Hubble images of nebulae provide.
 The basis for the image will largely be polygons expanding exponentially and proportionally from a particular point or center on the canvas. Originally, negative space was to be kept to an absolute minimum, but once we rendered our image we realized that negative space used amply around the edges helped to give the impression of depth we were seeking. The emphasis in the picture will be focused on the center most polygon, which will be the brightest point in the image. Each expanding polygon will be slightly duller than that which proceeded it. The goal of this is to give the illusion of an explosion outward from the central point, which lessens in intensity as it grows farther from its point of inception. This will help build the feeling of depth in the image. An original plan to stagger the center point of each expanding polygon was abandoned when we realized maintaining one central point helped emphasize the feeling of explosion in the image.
A decision was made to overlay each polygon with an alternately colored four-point star, with the same goal of highlighting explosiveness. 
Smaller, relatively bright ellipses will be used as ornamentation around the edge image, in order to enhance the feeling of depth and outer space. These are built with a variety of sizes, and stroked with a brush that makes them appear to be stars.
 The edges of each polygon are textured with a variety of different brushes, some of which give a smooth, flowing impression and others that give a more violent, popping feel.
 The relationship between colors is as follows. An original color is selected for the polygons, and the center is filled with a bright version of the color. Each expanding polygon is filled with a slightly darker version of that color, and the four-point stars within the polygons are filled with a complementary version of that color. The stars ornamenting the image are filled with a darker, redder version of the interior of the polygon, in order to focus attention on the expanding polygons.

Technique Statement

 Our three primary tools for creating the above image are as follows: We will be using GIMP tools in order to carve our polygons out of the image, and use iteration over positions within our image to create the various color blends. Recursion will be used to create smaller, bright ellipses that will be spangled across the image, the amount of these varying according to the recursion depth. Brushes of varying textures and colors will be used along the edges of the larger polygons in order to enhance their texture and appearance.
We plan to vary the image by varying the polygon colors, varying the background color, varying the brushes and the amount of surrounding bodies according to recursion-depth. We plan to apply color blends created by iterating over positions in each expanding polygon.
As the procedure is initiated, a color is selected from the list of 147 predefined GIMP colors according to the integer entered as 'n'. The expanding polygons are filled with blends based on this color, while their interior stars are filled with blends based on the complement of that color. The polygons are then stroked with a brush that varies in its color and texture depending on 'n'. The background ellipses are filled with a redder, darker version of the initial color blend, and then stroked with the brush “sparks” to give a star impression.