Project title: Flowing Painting

The goal of my project is to create an animated version of the famous painting Starry Sky by Vincent van Gogh. These are the core logic of how I plan to achieve that:

As I mentioned last week, I found a way of creating the vortex movement pattern based on a 2D Perlin noise field. The logic is to generate a base image of the noise field, put it at the bottom of the canvas, and calculate the driving force using the “difference of pressure” around any pixel.

I tried with the vortex field and generated some images:

And then I tried with the 3d Perlin noise:

Eventually, I want to achieve two things:

The first one is to convert the painting Starry Sky into this kind of alpha terrain. The second is to allow users to build their own terrain (base image). I plan to work on this the next week! Here’s the plan:

Another thing that is important to animating the painting is to create “strokes” that look real, instead of the particles.

Here’s how I generate the strokes to make them more like the strokes in the painting: