Jacob Ekstrand and Matt Jasaitis
Professor Weinman
11/25/14
	Design Proposal
Part 1:
	In our series we use many types of elements and principles of 
two dimensional design to create an interesting image. Our three algorithmic 
image-generating techniques include using GIMP painting tools, creating designs 
with turtles, and using image compute to form the background. The artistic 
strategies we use are varying colors, balance, and using positive and negative 
space. Our colors will vary through different hues, and will include all seven 
colors of the rainbow. We believe that these are important elements in creating 
interesting images. 
	In order to create the foreground, we came up with a strategy that includes 
creating boxes within boxes to give off the illusion of a 3D point of focus. 
Due to the fact that these boxes aren’t in the middle, they skew the balance 
of the image. We also used turtles to add some flavor. After remembering how cool 
the turtle spiral code was from the iteration reading, we decided to use it in our 
image. On top of that, we have more turtles that zig zag across the screen. Our hope 
was that it would give off the appearance of a rainbow in the horizon. The most enticing 
aspect of our image is that the colors for our spiral turtles match the color for our boxes. 
In order to utilize negative space we have areas in the background that do not contain turtles 
or boxes. Instead the negative space that resides in our background solely contains our fade 
of cool colors which we created through utilizing image compute. 



Part two:
	There are four distinct parts of our image: the background, the boxes, the turtle 
spirals, and the turtle horizon. Our background is created through image compute, and it 
is the first part that the code creates. Next the turtle horizon is created through using 
turtles that start at the left side of the image and move across the whole image horizontally. 
The third step is the turtle spiral which starts all the turtles in the middle and has them 
move out in a spiral. Finally, by selecting a part of the image we create our large box, and 
then once we have our large box, we select a fraction of it to create our smaller boxes.
	In creating the background for our image we used image-compute to create a nice fade. This is 
one of the factors that added variety to our image. It adds variety because we multiply the irgb 
by n which makes the color different for any value of n. Another source of variety comes through 
our GIMP tools. We placed n within the equation for selecting the top, left, width, and height of 
the original box which makes the box appear in different places with different sizes. The color of 
the boxes we also made depend on n by writing an equation that multiplies n by cosine or sine. Our 
image’s third source of variation deals with the color of the turtle spirals which match the color 
of the boxes. Due to the number of factors that we were able to create one-thousand unique images. 
	Although our image is very interesting we did diverge from our initial proposal quite a bit. For 
starters, we initially were going to make our background a grid, but we felt that it would clutter 
up the image, so instead we simply used image compute. Additionally, we initially planned to have 
both ellipses and boxes, but we could never get the ellipses to work, so we settled for boxes. Due 
to this change we added the turtle in the background because without them our image would be bland. 
Despite our changes, we are happy with how our image turned out.