This project is inspired by Turkish art motifs. It refers to all works of visual art from present Turkey since arrival of Turks in Middle Ages. Turkey also was the home of much significant art produced by earlier cultures like Hitties, Ancient Greeks and Byzantines. Ottoman art its a dominant element of Turkish art before 20th century. It is developed traditional Islamic style with some technical influences from Europe, in to a highly sophisticated style which can be richly decorated in tiles, seen in palaces, mosques and tubes. Arabesque is one of another element that gives form to the Turkish islamic art motifs.
This project is written by Processing language. I’ve simply loaded the motifs in to memory and came up with the idea of pointillism. By picking colors out of that motif meanly the image become like a lookup table which the database of colors, I draw circles wherever over the screen so picked colors out of that motif. I’ve draw the circles radius at 10 by 10. After a while, I realized the images were more effective with noStroke(); so I continue that way for the images made with pointillism. It’s taking some time to see the final results of the images for just to make it faster a loop can be done. If we want to see a shimmering version of an image we can always give an alpha to fill(); as a second argument.(I didn’t prefer)
The code is below;
PImage turkish1;void setup(){ size(1500,1542); turkish1= loadImage("turkish1.jpg"); background(0);}void draw(){for(int i=0; I<100;i++){ float x= random(width); float y= random(height); color c= turkish1.get(int(x),int(y)); noStroke(); fill(c); ellipse(x,y,10,10); }}
Finally I end by the motifs which are used in handmade traditional Anatolian kilims(flat-woven rugs). My family also have this type of kilim back at home in Istanbul, so I wanted to make a design related with it. If a should give a little information about these rugs; In Turkish Anatolia, village women wove themes significant for their lives into rugs, whether before marriage or during married life. Some motifs represent desires, such as for happiness and children; others, for protection against threats such as wolves (to the flocks) and scorpions, or against the evil eye. Each pattern has their own arrangement in rug and own meanings.
