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Paint abstract "art" with Flame - Time Waster
by Erez Zukerman Feb 25th 2010 at 1:00PM
Flame is a cute little Flash toy I found over at MakeUseOf. It basically lets you run your mouse in semi-random patterns and claim it's art. Don't blame me for the image above; I plead color-blindness (and I have a trackball!)
The controls are surprisingly complex, letting you modify quite a few brush parameters. There is a complete help text at the bottom of the page, which you should probably read if you're serious about trying this tool, because you can actually get some pretty nice results with it.
Chromatic is one of the best time-wasters I've recently come across. It's all about the gameplay -- no Flash graphics here. You play a "circle" (it doesn't really have a name in the game). You move around with the arrow keys, and you change colors with Z, X, and C.
You can either be red, blue, or yellow, and you can switch at any time during the game. Each color has different capabilities -- yellow can double-jump, while red has a longer dash (which is like a forward sprint, activated by double-pressing DOWN).
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Evenio said 3:41PM on 2-25-2010
It's a Java applet, apparently. Wow. Somebody out there actually still clings to Java.
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dodutils said 6:03PM on 2-25-2010
Wonderfull app, and not Flash but Java, that's great !
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pat_boy2008 said 6:47PM on 2-25-2010
This is a cool app. Here's a little something I did http://twitpic.com/15bxjn
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emanuelsmith1 said 12:59AM on 2-26-2010
i would say that abstract art is the opposite of figurative art. Whatever the medium used, generally there are no recognisable figures or objects. Qute often the painting results from the artist expressing him/herself physically, as with Jackson Pollock. Sometimes such art comes from an ntellectual point of view - like in Bridget Riley's work, which is precis and controlled.
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