50000 rectangles

I described a rectangle's weight back in 50000 Rectangles #2. This weight could also be considered opacity, or its inverse, transparency.

I keep track of the total weight on each pixel. Each time a rectangle covers a pixel the rectangle weight is added to the pixel weight.

All rectangles, and all pixels covered by each rectangle are assigned the same weight. So the pixel weight is essentially the number of rectangles that intersect the pixel.

Weight varies from image to image, but on a single image it is constant. At least so far. I may experiment with rectangles of different weight, or different pixel weights within a rectangle.

50000 rectangles

10000 each of five colors. weight = 5%

I am sure you noticed the black outline or shadows around some of the rectangles, and you suspect there is something else going on. There is. The explanation will take a few days. (I have over 20 of these images to post, and I tend to run out of words before images. So I am spreading the words over many posts.)

50000 rectangles

Now 5000 rectangles each of 10 colors, with weight = 2%

10000 rectangles

Today we have 10 colors. 1000 rectangles each. The "weight" (as defined in 50000 Rectangles #2) of each rectangle is now 5%. So fewer, and more transparent rectangles than the previous images.

20000 rectangles

Today's picture has 20000 rectangles. There are 1000 rectangles each of 20 colors. The rectangles are painted in order of 1000 of the first colors, 1000 of the second and so on. While there is an equal number of rectangles of each color, the color of the last set (in this case orange) dominates.

10000 rectangles

Each rectangle is assigned a weight and a color. A typical weight is 10%. When a new rectangle is added, 10% of the new rectangle color is added to the current color of each pixel it intersects.

50000 rectangles

I am starting a new series today. Each image is created with 50000, give or take, overlapping rectangles. The first image here has exactly 50000 rectangles.

Here the "scribbles" have more depth. Surface colors are deemphasized in favor of bright lights and deep shadows.

Another short series, Textured Scribbles, starts today. Like Textured Fractals, these started as experiments as part of the Experiment 2023.2 series.

There is a lot of overlap with the previous two series. The textures are borrowed from the Experiment series. The scribbles are contour line from fractals in the Textures Fractals series.

Metallic coloring with a low iteration fractal. Also something I want to revisit someday.

Here are a couple with broken pieces. This could become a separate series in the future.

The first of two flat ones.