Week 8- Time-Based Thinking

 This week I wanted to take less control over my process. Specifically, after I hit the 'run' button on my code, I walk away from my computer and simply let it happen. Previously I have kept a watchful eye on each and every drawing as it was being created, stopping the code when I, personally thought the piece looked 'good'. It was this level of humanism that I wanted to remove from my work, it should be more about the computer/code than the person that wrote the code.

I stripped back the code I wrote last week to its bare minimum and simply let it run. I ended up with a triptych piece that I was very happy with. the first one was run for 5 minutes, the second for 10 minutes and the third for 30 minutes. To me these pieces signify technological freedom; giving the computer a chance to do what it does best: execute code.

The lines overlapping and interacting with each other is my favourite part about these pieces, as well as the intricate nature of the overlapping lines and the consequential forms that may or may not be created in the process.

Leaving the code time to execute creates a more natural feeling outcome, something that seems to harbor more emotion and meaning within the sea of random lines. In a strange way these are some of my favourite outcomes of the project so far. It is strange because they are the pieces that I, the 'artist', had the least involvement in.

I am coming out of this week feeling more inspired and full of ideas on how I can give the computer more control over the process rather than less. As well as some clues as to how I can implement a more complex drawing method into my algorithm, where each new line considers the previous line and affects the next.