week 2: mondrian in processing

for this assignment, we had to recreate a painting by Piet Mondrian in processing

we were introduced to simple codes and used it to create the composition

rect();

fill();

noStroke();

I chose Composition C (no. III)

I picked this one because of the lines cutting through the canvas. That with the bright square shapes seemed like a decent challenge for a first assignment.

I first imported the image into photoshop and made shapes on top of the existing ones. I then used the properties panel in photoshop to see the exact coordinates of each shape.

Then, I opened processing and coded the shapes based on the coordinates I discovered in the previous step. This made it much easier to figure out where my shapes would be while also being accurate to the original painting.

my code:

finished project: