According to Wikipedia, Damien Steven Hirst is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He is reportedly the United Kingdom's richest living artist, with his wealth estimated at US$384 million in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List.
His "Spot Paintings" have been sold for up to 1.275.000 pounds (roughly 1.5M dollars).
Well, as the name suggests, this simple Python script uses Python's turtle module to generate spot paintings like Damien's based on the palette of an image chosen by you, so you can also sell your works of art and become a millionaire.
Here's an example of an image and the spot painting generated by this script using its palette:
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Install the required modules:
pip install -r requirements.txt
You can run the script now:
python ./spot-painting-generator.py
After you pick an image, the spot painting will be generated and saved in results/
Type python spot-painting-generator.py --help to see the available options...
usage: Generate Hirst's Spot Paintings [-h] [-w] [-H] [-s] [-d] [-r]
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-w , --width number of dots in width
-H , --height number of dots in height
-s , --size dot size
-d , --distance distance between each dot
-r, --random random colors
This script was made as one of the activities proposed by this Python course