COP'ing with Pain

Learn how to use Copernicus to generate a procedural painting, inspired by reaction-diffusion solvers and impressionist techniques. Learn how to construct painterly effects with procedural brush strokes, edge detection, slope direction, solvers, and color correction to simulate oil painting textures, varnish gloss, and impasto depth. Explore an OpenCL implementation for lighting effects, reflecting on LLMs as coding facilitators, and encouraging exploration of both performance optimizations and academic opportunities.