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Cartoon by Andy Riley.

Here’s the result of a typo in one of my programs.  I left out a “-1″.  I’ll take creativity where I can find it.

The music was composed first, and the video added later:

Britta Johnson (video director for Andrew Bird, among others) brings Lusine’s gorgeous new single Two Dots to life, illustrating the songs relationships-as-trigonometry analogy in an intricately animated video. In the clip, a pair of marbles—one blue, one yellow—engage in the timeless dance of seduction on a horizontal plain, mapping the ups and downs of a courtship through pencil-drawn geometric principles. Like Two Dots, Johnson’s video lives in the middle ground between technology and humanity, emotional immediacy and obsessive detail.

My process, such as it is:

• I have an idea, like the Voronoi sudoku, so
• I write some code,
• Which generates some images,
• Which gives me ideas for changing the code.

Lather, rinse, repeat.  The process seems to work best when it’s slightly out of control.  How is it out of control?

• When I’m working on the code, I can’t visualize what the image will look like.
• I usually introduce some sort of randomness, which means I really can’t know what will happen.
• I make mistakes.

The result is that I surprise myself, I end up with something that’s not exactly what I expected.  This seems to be a nerdly recapitulation of something from Ehrenzweig’s The Hidden Order of Art:

The medium should be resistant enough to prevent over-planning.

Joan of Z made these:

Another great recycled creation! When I found this vintage faux fur coat from the 70’s I knew it had possibilities! I have transformed it into any army of little plush guinea pigs with soft fleece tummies and removable microwavable rice bags inside.

The Machine Learning department at Carnegie-Mellon protests at the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh. You’d think they could make better signs.