Friday, May 07, 2010

alchemy |’alkemē

Figurative: a process by which paradoxical results are achieved or incompatible elements combined with no obvious rational explanation


Alchemy isn’t software for creating finished artwork, but rather a sketching environment that focuses on the absolute initial stage of the creation process. Intentionally reduced to a level of functionality there are no undo, no selecting, and no editing features. Interaction focuses instead on the output of a great number of good, bad, strange and beautiful shapes.


Alchemy is an open drawing project aimed at exploring how we can sketch, draw, and create on computers in new ways. Try and download a free version at al.chemy.org

11 comments:

craig said...

Peter, this is killer. I'm gonna give that program a try

Anders said...

gorgeous!

Peter Oedekoven said...

Sounds very interesting and looks very cool!
Hope to see you at our Artillerieparty this year!!

Peter said...

@craig: thnx man, looking forward to seeing the results on your blog

Bodil Bang Heinemeier said...

Hi,

Thank you for leaving a comment on my blog. I work with wacom... I can see you worked in Munich on Jester till, so did I:) But in the animation department.
Your work is really impressive.

Bodil

Bodil Bang Heinemeier said...

Im not In munich anymore, Im back in copenhagen. Are you still in munich?

Peter said...

yes - when I'm not working. I'll keep you posted...

Anonymous said...

Hi Peter, you visited the blog and left a message, sorry for forgetting to reply. I'm glad i came to visit. Have you seen POP? This program sounds interesting, i'll go and pick it up within minutes! cheers,

Peter said...

Hi Laurent, good to hear from you. Yes, I saw it last week in a dubbed version(without the posh English accent :-). Didn't expect anything special and was surprised... Did you see the book?

Anonymous said...

havent seen the film, yet. and i forgot about the book :) thanks for reminding me of that. I Will have to check both at some point... oh, and i check that Alchemy program only for ten minutes, but I will get back at it.

Peter said...

can't wait to see what you're doing with it. I believe it suits your style very well...