drawing machines recipes

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drawing machines recipes

These drawing machines have patterns of actions such as turning and moving forward, that change at irregular intervals determined by the random seed (the hash in fx(hash). The drawing machines are a variation on the 'turtle' graphics that Seymour Papert (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_graphics) added to the Logo programming language in the 1960s. The machines leave a trace on the canvas as they move along, and have only a very limited set of instructions: 'move forward', 'turn left or right', 'draw rectangle' and 'change linewidth'. When they 'collide' against the edge of the canvas, they perform a random turn, so that at least they won't get stuck. The machines in this version get a new set of instructions at random intervals.

This work was inspired by the late Remko Scha, with whom I worked at the Institute of Artificial Art in Amsterdam as 'director of automatic expressionism'. in the 1990s. You can find his legacy here: www.remkoscha.nl and specifically the archive of the IAAA is here: www.remkoscha.nl/iaaa