translucent

michael | generative art | Monday, December 11th, 2006

When I was a wee tot, my favorite toy was a simple set of hard plastic shapes cast in bright, transparent colors. I would hold the red discs and green cylinders up to my eyes and get freaked out by how these simple filters could change every color in the world. Never outgrew that love of translucency, really.

Each circle in these prints has a 6% opacity fill in the inverse color of its rim color. Often this produces horrible failures. But when it works, the effect can be subtle and striking.

lucid 000 and detail
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lucid 003 and detail
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