Verner Panton, Geometri (1960), algorithmic reconstruction (2022)



My reconstruction, built with Python in DrawBot. Panton’s original followed a constant order of scale and position; the code I wrote recursively randomizes the scale and parity (white over black or black over white).



I can also adjust my code to add further layers of scale.



Panton’s original pattern (image via auctionet.com):


Bridget Riley, Shift (1963), reconstructed (2022)



Riley is the serial-art queen of the exception to the rule. My reconstruction above; below, the original: (image: via mutualart.com)

Built with Python in DrawBot.
Vera Molnar, (Des)ordres (1974) reconstruction (2021)

Demo for a patterns & animations Python/DrawBot workshop at Typographics 2021.

(reconstruction)


(original, image: Digital Art Musuem)


Built with Python in DrawBot.
Max Bill’s Fünfzehn Variationen über ein Thema (Fifteen Variations on a Theme), reconstructed (2021)



(mercedes-benz.art)

Bill’s series of lithographs, reconstructed with Python in @drawbotapp (with a little help from Illustrator in variation 11, I confess).




Random building generator (2020)



No way to get out of Ames during the peaks of the pandemic, so I brought the cities I wanted to visit to me. The Python code I wrote in @drawbotapp draw outlines of buildings with randomly-chosen dimensions of walls and numbers of floors, profiles of roofs, positions and shapes/sizes of doors and windows.





Mark