Gen Geological

This repository contains a Processing sketch that generates a series of images with layered color effects, simulating geological strata with a two-tone filter effect. The sketch uses Perlin noise to create a natural-looking base line and overlays the generated artwork with a textured frosted glass effect.

Prerequisites

Before running this sketch, you need to have Processing 3 or later installed on your computer. Processing is an open-source graphical library and integrated development environment (IDE) built for the electronic arts, new media art, and visual design communities.

You can download Processing from the official website:

Processing Download Page

Running the Sketch

To run the sketch, follow these steps:

Open the Processing IDE on your computer.
Create a new sketch by clicking File > New in the IDE.
Copy the entire code from the provided .pde files into the new sketch window in the Processing IDE.
Save the sketch by clicking File > Save or pressing Ctrl+S (or Cmd+S on macOS).
Run the sketch by clicking the Run button (the triangular button at the top-left corner of the IDE), or by pressing Ctrl+R (or Cmd+R on macOS).
The program will generate and save a series of images to the output directory within your sketch folder.

Output

The sketch will produce a set of images defined by the numImages variable. These images will be saved in the output directory with sequentially numbered filenames like image-0001.png, image-0002.png, etc.

Configuration

You can modify the following parameters in the sketch to change the output:

numLayers: Number of color layers to generate.
numImages: Number of images you want to generate.
Randomness parameters (random1, random2, etc.): Adjust these to change the randomness of the noise and color distribution.

Please ensure that the output directory exists within your sketch folder before running the sketch.

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