https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/recreation-thursday/ Recent content in Recreation Thursday on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Sun, 25 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/07/25/faxcrayon/ Sun, 25 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/07/25/faxcrayon/ Design is, like, a process, so the page may change, y’know? tl;dr I used the {bs4cards} package by Danielle Navarro to create an effortless online ‘gallery’ of ‘art’ on a single R Markdown page: faxcrayon.art. Art is a lie Turns out you can just put up some pictures on the internet and call it a gallery. No one is stopping you. Here is a foolproof approach: R Markdown with {bs4cards} to write the content, GitHub Pages to serve it, and a totally rad URL to convince people you’re legit. https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/07/05/recreate-lewitt/ Mon, 05 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/07/05/recreate-lewitt/ LeWitt ReMix The third #RecreationThursday challenge involved Sol LeWitt’s Colour Bands (2000), which you can see on this prints catalogue. In short, each piece is square and contains patterns of colourful concentric lines that are arranged into panels of varying shapes with black borders. Rather than recreate his artworks exactly, I decided to riff on the approach with a (very basic) Shiny app, which adds different types of lines and some randomisation. https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/06/21/recreate-hlito/ Mon, 21 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/06/21/recreate-hlito/ Rando-Hlito The first #RecreationThursday challenge involved Alfredo Hlito’s Curves and Straight Series (1948), held by New York’s MoMA. My recreation uses only base R functions: My remix is a 10 by 10 grid where the elemental geometry is randomised: I also made a gif remix that’s composed of 10 ‘rando-Hlitos’: Approach You can find all the commented code and the outputs in my matt-dray/viz-recreation GitHub repo.