Stay Woke: Application

I collaborated with J.P. Ramirez to help him translate his Stay Woke project into print. The project began as an installation featuring a large, custom typography piece filled with googly eyes. Placing the eyes on the original piece was a tedious and laborious process (J.P.'s a bit of a glutton for punishment when it comes to installations like that) so we resolved to find a better way in the transition to a new medium.

To accomplish the placement I created a tool using Processing that would take the original artwork and place googly-eyes randomly upon the shapes. The spacing was achieved using a physics library that simulates the collision between round objects and treats the virtual eyes very much like actual physical objects, nudging and pushing each other aside.