Artwork Archive
Henry Robbins
weave (2022)
Inspired by Dinh Q. Lê’s handwoven photographs, weave is an exercise in digital image compositing. weave explores the notion of a meta-algorithm generating an image through an iterative process gui...
weave (2022)
Inspired by Dinh Q. Lê’s handwoven photographs, weave is an exercise in digital image compositing. weave explores the notion of a meta-algorithm generating an image through an iterative process gui...
Henry Robbins
memory (2022)
A programming language specification describes the syntax and semantics of a programming language. In some instances, the values of a term may be unspecified. In C, the value of an uninitialized va...
memory (2022)
A programming language specification describes the syntax and semantics of a programming language. In some instances, the values of a term may be unspecified. In C, the value of an uninitialized va...
Henry Robbins
composite (2021)
Like the weierstrass series, this work explores the result of substituting carefully chosen parameters in image transformation algorithms with unbased choices. Here, arbitrary functions are used in...
composite (2021)
Like the weierstrass series, this work explores the result of substituting carefully chosen parameters in image transformation algorithms with unbased choices. Here, arbitrary functions are used in...
Henry Robbins
tsp (2021)
The Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) is an example of a problem which is deceivingly challenging to solve. This work utilizes that complexity for imagemaking. A set of n points are randomly placed...
tsp (2021)
The Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) is an example of a problem which is deceivingly challenging to solve. This work utilizes that complexity for imagemaking. A set of n points are randomly placed...
Henry Robbins
weierstrass (2021)
In image rescaling, filters are carefully chosen to result in “good” rescaled representations of an image. This work explores what happens when you lift that constraint. An approximation of the Wei...
weierstrass (2021)
In image rescaling, filters are carefully chosen to result in “good” rescaled representations of an image. This work explores what happens when you lift that constraint. An approximation of the Wei...
Henry Robbins
steal_your_face (2021)
This work uses a particular style of ASCII art in which “symbols with various intensities [are used for] creating gradients or contrasts.” A custom process for converting images to ASCII was applie...
steal_your_face (2021)
This work uses a particular style of ASCII art in which “symbols with various intensities [are used for] creating gradients or contrasts.” A custom process for converting images to ASCII was applie...
Henry Robbins and River Chavez
conway (2021)
The images node (2021-05-02) and rhizomes (2021-05-02) were photographed by River Chavez. Conway’s Game of Life is a classic example of complex “emergent” behavior stemming from seemingly simple r...
conway (2021)
The images node (2021-05-02) and rhizomes (2021-05-02) were photographed by River Chavez. Conway’s Game of Life is a classic example of complex “emergent” behavior stemming from seemingly simple r...
Henry Robbins
stewart (2021)
Photos of Stewart Park in Ithaca, NY were taken and processed to produce a stop motion animation. Frames of this animation were transformed using techniques from the prior works mod and clip in add...
stewart (2021)
Photos of Stewart Park in Ithaca, NY were taken and processed to produce a stop motion animation. Frames of this animation were transformed using techniques from the prior works mod and clip in add...
Henry Robbins and River Chavez
resolution (2021)
The images paper and florida were photographed by River Chavez. This work aims to draw a strong connection between properties of a source image and the pixels used to represent it. A rule was devi...
resolution (2021)
The images paper and florida were photographed by River Chavez. This work aims to draw a strong connection between properties of a source image and the pixels used to represent it. A rule was devi...
Henry Robbins
channel (2021)
This work was generated using code adapted from Dan Torop. His script separates pixels of a P3 Netpbm image into the three color channels allowing each color channel to be modified independently. I...
channel (2021)
This work was generated using code adapted from Dan Torop. His script separates pixels of a P3 Netpbm image into the three color channels allowing each color channel to be modified independently. I...
Henry Robbins
clip (2021)
The image creek (2021-03-21) was used with permission from the artist: River Chavez. This work was inspired by the partition series in which images were partitioned by gradients in the image. This...
clip (2021)
The image creek (2021-03-21) was used with permission from the artist: River Chavez. This work was inspired by the partition series in which images were partitioned by gradients in the image. This...
Henry Robbins and River Chavez
partition (2021)
The images waterfall (2021-03-20), risley (2021-03-21), creek (2021-03-21), fallen_tree (2021-03-21), old_man (2021-03-21), wading (2021-03-21), and island (2021-03-21) were photographed by River C...
partition (2021)
The images waterfall (2021-03-20), risley (2021-03-21), creek (2021-03-21), fallen_tree (2021-03-21), old_man (2021-03-21), wading (2021-03-21), and island (2021-03-21) were photographed by River C...
Henry Robbins
drunk_walk (2021)
In mathematics, the Drunkard’s walk most often refers to a point in the euclidean plane iteratively moving in a random cardinal direction. This work is generated via a Drunkard’s walk. In each imag...
drunk_walk (2021)
In mathematics, the Drunkard’s walk most often refers to a point in the euclidean plane iteratively moving in a random cardinal direction. This work is generated via a Drunkard’s walk. In each imag...
Henry Robbins and Ella Clemons
mod (2021)
The images sky (2021-02-24), faces (2021-03-07), and stomp (2021-03-07) were photographed by Ella Clemons. This work focuses on a particular image transformation technique: taking the mod of an im...
mod (2021)
The images sky (2021-02-24), faces (2021-03-07), and stomp (2021-03-07) were photographed by Ella Clemons. This work focuses on a particular image transformation technique: taking the mod of an im...
Henry Robbins
dissolve (2021)
This series contains two groups of images: those that were hand-crafted and those that were created by a script. dissolve.pgm, dissolve2.pgm, and dissolve3.pgm were hand-crafted (2021-02-26). The b...
dissolve (2021)
This series contains two groups of images: those that were hand-crafted and those that were created by a script. dissolve.pgm, dissolve2.pgm, and dissolve3.pgm were hand-crafted (2021-02-26). The b...
Henry Robbins
polyominoes (2021)
The free polyominoes for n in [1..4] are shown. Each n is shown in binary on the left of the image. Note that the skew-tetromino was accidentally omitted.
polyominoes (2021)
The free polyominoes for n in [1..4] are shown. Each n is shown in binary on the left of the image. Note that the skew-tetromino was accidentally omitted.
Henry Robbins
mother_of_all_demos (2021)
This work is based off of the Highlights of the 1968 “Mother of All Demos” given by Doug Engelbart. It was the “world debut of personal and interactive computing”. The playlist consists of 10 parts...
mother_of_all_demos (2021)
This work is based off of the Highlights of the 1968 “Mother of All Demos” given by Doug Engelbart. It was the “world debut of personal and interactive computing”. The playlist consists of 10 parts...
Henry Robbins
color_matrix (2021)
The rows and columns of the matrix are the colors white, red, green, blue, and black in that order. The remaining entries of the matrix are the respective column and row colors added together. For ...
color_matrix (2021)
The rows and columns of the matrix are the colors white, red, green, blue, and black in that order. The remaining entries of the matrix are the respective column and row colors added together. For ...
Henry Robbins
spin (2021)
spin.sh and spin.py are a Bash and Python script respectively which return a spinning bar rotating every t seconds where t is an argument to both scripts. The bar will rotate until CRTL+C is presse...
spin (2021)
spin.sh and spin.py are a Bash and Python script respectively which return a spinning bar rotating every t seconds where t is an argument to both scripts. The bar will rotate until CRTL+C is presse...
Henry Robbins
format (2021)
The python script format.py takes two arguments: a text file and an integer w. The text is optimally split into lines with a target line width of w. This optimization is done via a reduction to the...
format (2021)
The python script format.py takes two arguments: a text file and an integer w. The text is optimally split into lines with a target line width of w. This optimization is done via a reduction to the...