Design Statement:

For my image-series, I chose to look at two different compositional elements. The first, being the effect of changes in color and value within an image. My gradients allow the intense core values of the colors I’m using to then decline in value until they reach black, creating almost a glowing orb on a black background. I then chose to overlay this with a study on line. The line drawings on top of the gradient backgrounds are made white in order to really draw the viewer’s attention, letting the colored backdrop have a more subtle impact. Each distinct line drawing is intended to have a different feel to it, with some drawings being symmetrical and others not, and some using softer, more gestural shapes which some are more geometrical and with bound angles. As seen in the images I selected as my three examples, these can combine in very interesting ways with the color gradients with the right combinations. 

Technique Statement: 

My algorithm for image-series is comprised of a combination of:
    -turtle-graphic designs
    -image-compute gradients
    -selecting colors from a list
to create images that, in essence, are variations of dark colored radial gradients in different areas overlain with different line patterns created by set turtle-graphic procedures. My algorithm creates the intended designs in three parts (described in more detail later below). I have created 10 turtle designs that, when drawn on square canvases, scale correctly and produce the designs at the angles and lengths that I intend, as I have used the width and height as determining factors to the lengths of lines. This ensures that even as the width and height are scaled to smaller and larger sizes, the line lengths will be scaled similarly. As some of the turtle procedures, such as turtle-polygon! create equilateral shapes, my images are unable to adapt to different aspect ratios. However, I specified this in my preconditions for image-series. The gradients I treated in a similar way, basing their size off of the width and height. Because the gradient creates the canvas on which I draw with turtles, it is crucial for it to emulate the correct scaled specifications, so by using width and height as parameters I made sure that the relative scale was uniform to that of the canvas size. The color is pulled from a list which I use list-ref and n to create, and because there are only 10 values in the list, and thus would each correspond to a different integer of 9, it is ensured that a distinct color will be chosen each time.
I know that my algorithm creates 1000 distinct images because I varied each of the three components, represented by each of my algorithms, 10 times, corresponding to each of the three places in the n term (e.g in the n value 523, the gradient corresponds to the value 5 in the hundreds place, the color corresponds to the value 2 in the tens place, and the turtle design applies to the value 3 in the ones place). I created ten different variations for each of these components, thus ensuring that there would be a unique image for each value 0-9 in each of the numerical places, and thus 1000 unique images from 000-999. I isolated each place value by using conditionals to separate the hundreds place, and then for the tens place dividing by a factor of ten to reduce that value to a number between 0 and 9, rounding it to create a whole integer.