Mis.shap.en.ness Gives Us Gorgeous Generative Typography

We’re loving this latest set of generative experiments from LA-based computational designer, Reza Ali. Ali’s been researching and creating novel methods for image making using code with some stunning results. In this project, he turns his Processing prowess to visualizing language with a series of generative typographical treatments that are sure to delight the typography nerds among you.

Ali explains his creative process:
These images were created with a processing sketch that utilizes springs and particles. The program allows you to enter a string. Then that string’s type is traced out, thus rendering its outline. This outline consists of a set of points. These points are transformed into particles, which are connected (via springs) to other particles in their proximity. The springs apply force to the particles, which keeps them together and also apart. Then gravity is applied to these particles, which causes wet paint-like drips to form in the image.

Ali then manipulates the “decomposition” of the final text forms by clicking around with his mouse, which pushes the particles away and causes a paint splattering effect a la Jackson Pollock. According to his blog, there’s an iPad app version of this in the works, which should be available soon. Check out the video above to see the process in action, as well as the images below and Ali’s blog for more examples.

[via CreativeApplications.net]