Optics Issue 1 - Desaturated Graphics

OPTICS Perceptive Aesthetics

A Look Into

Desaturated Graphics Colour, Contrast, and Saturation In Design Archillect: The AI That Knows What You Want to See

Art Tips Featured Art Issue 1 - De-saturation Cover Image - David E. Carter

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CONTENTS A Letter From Bliss - 3

Featured Articles A Look Into Desaturated Graphics - 7 Colour, Contrast, and Saturation In Design and Photography - 15 Archillect: The AI That Knows What You Want to See - 20

Miscellaneous Daily Minimal - 5 Katharina Fritsch - 6 ANTIREAL - 13 Takesada Matsutani - 14 Georg Nickolaus - 17 Hello World 你好世界 - 19 The Hundred Surnames in Tofu - 23

Community Works Featured Art - 25 Image Credits - 28

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A Letter From

Bliss Arrogance This isn’t even the first issue. A one hundred twenty-seven megabyte folder sits in my external hard drive, just waiting to be edited or touched in any way. In my rush of the holidays, I had forgotten to keep my agenda and consistently work on it. So, in a desperate attempt to ensure I’d do something with the files eating disk space on my drive, I decided to put aside the original plans for the first issue and start fresh.

You're reading the second issue as a draft to ensure I still have a special touch. ✦ In advance, I’m not perfect or the greatest. I will probably misspell something or get some facts wrong. If you notice something please email me. (blissful.acc@gmail.com)

I’d like to take a small note on the history of Optics.

Originally Optics was my discord server, based completely around vaporwave art and a few other aesthetic topics. Soon after I had decided to create the first magazine (not this one but the actual first one stated before), I had to stop and with that went my desire to continue posting aesthetically pleasing pictures. Before I knew it, Optics became Connect, I’d gotten lazy, and had nothing but the free time that I always wasted.

So here it is, the pointless reboot of Optics. I have no regrets, except that this is going to cost me a hell of a lot of black ink.

And on That Note, I’m nothing close to a grammatic genius. I’m only one person and I’m the only person working on this magazine. I don’t want to seem like a beggar but I may seriously need an editor or a writer.

You don’t need any experience or anything. This is just a call out to those that would like to write for a bit of fun, as I don’t plan on making any money from this magazine. If by chance you want to have a bit of fun helping out with this small project, please email me.

Pistole Katharina Fritsch German, b. 1956 Sculptor

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/ berlin based / / graphic designer and photo enthusiast / / cameras – samsung es74, panasonic dmc-zs15, dmc-lx100, dmc-tz71 / luxlit, easelyapp and lensblr member /

georg.nickolaus https://www.instagram.com/georg.nickolaus/

der-gorgonaut https://der-gorgonaut.tumblr.com/

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So far, we’ve given Archillect all the glory when it comes to operation, but there are a few bots that certainly help out. On twitter, Archillect’s posts are followed up with comments from Achillect Links. The bot supplies links and keywords to back up Archillect’s posts.

On top of Archillect's helpers, the community surrounding her develops their own bots. One very helpful bot is called Archillect Context, posting keywords from reverse searching the image. Another neat community addition is Dominant_Colors, which creates a colour swatch from the images posted by Archillect, brought to us by the developer of WikiArt_Dom_Col.

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One way many people could see this is AI determining what we prefer to see. Of course, as technology becomes more proficient, the same logic behind Archillect could be used personally by consumers. This ethically deems art museums baren from its audience that would be honed in on the personal feed of visuals.

All this may play a very small part in the lives of normal people, but for curators and art enthusiasts it is the start of a world of change ushered in by new tech.

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That being said, I urge you to check out Pak’s creation and follow them on Twitter for a stream of visually pleasing imagery. I use Archillect to start my morning with some modern inspiration. If this intrigues you, please give them a look.

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The Hundred Surnames in Tofu Chen Qiulin, 2014

FEATURED ART

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IMAGE CREDITS Optics is a non-commercial magazine that tries to respect the copyrights of all artists with work featured. I’d like to give as much credit possible to the creators of the lovely images and designs used to put together this issue. Here is a list of each artist/designer/photographer in order of the page, from right to left and down on each (figure to the right). Please go and check out their work!

Also, if your work is featured in this issue and you feel that you prefer it not to be included or that your work is misrepresented, please email me at blissful.acc@gmail.com so I can fix my mistake. Thank you!

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André Gonçalves - http://www.andre-goncalves.com - https://twitter.com/andre_goncalves

Ben Hook - https://antireal.info - https://twitter.com/4nt1r34l

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Jogoraz - jogoraz.tumblr.com - https://www.instagram.com/jogoraz

Takesada Matsutani - https://www.takesadamatsutani.com - http://www.artnet.com/artists/takesada-matsutani/

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Christian Vennerstrøm Jensen - https://gaalangt-blog.tumblr.com - https://www.flickr.com/photos/gaalangt/

Veronika Gilková - https://www.instagram.com/veronikagilkova/ - https://veronikagilkova.tumblr.com

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Pierre Voisin - https://www.dailyminimal.com - https://www.instagram.com/daily_minimal/

Georg Nickolaus - https://der-gorgonaut.tumblr.com/ - https://www.instagram.com/georg.nickolaus/

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Katharina Fritsch - https://www.artsy.net/artist/katharina-fritsch - http://www.artnet.com/artists/katharina-fritsch/

Fabian Fohrer - https://tightype.com - https://www.instagram.com/fabianfohrer/

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Jesús Perea - http://jesusperea.com - https://www.instagram.com/jesusperea/

Murat Pak - https://twitter.com/muratpak - https://undream.net

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Alan Heath - https://www.alanheath-privatearts.com - https://twitter.com/alheathprivarts

Chen Qiulin - http://anthonydiscenza.info - https://twitter.com/anthonydiscenza

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Ann Yu - http://www.hkdomani.com - https://www.archilovers.com/ann-yu/

Raw Color - http://www.rawcolor.nl/welcome/ - https://harmonyinspire.com/en/designers/raw-color

Thibault Priou - http://www.thibaultpriou.com - https://www.behance.net/thibaultpriou Hans Rathenow - https://eastberliner.tumblr.com - https://www.bagjack.com

Page 10 South Korean SWAT - https://www.police.go.kr/eng/main.do - http://www.army.mil.kr/webapp/user/indexMain.do

Page 12 Eva Rothschild - http://www.artnet.com/artists/eva-rothschild/ - https://www.303gallery.com/artists/eva-rothschild

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