Bridget Riley, Hidden squares (1970), reconstructed (2022)


My reconstruction with animation, built with Python in DrawBot.


The original (image: liveauctioneers.com).
Vera Molnar, Parcours à angles droits (1997), algorithmic reconstruction and animation (2022)


My reconstruction, built with Python in DrawBot.


The original (VG Bild-Kunst Berlin, photo: Helmut Bauer).


My animation.
Karl Gerstner, Squaring the circle (1954?), reconstruction (2021)


My reconstruction with implied motion.



The original, in Gerstner’s Designing programmes (3d rev ed, 2007/1964).
Sophie Taueber-Arp, Construction géométrique (1942), reconstruction (2021)


Reconstruction with implied (to me, anyway) motion.


My static reconstruction.

(Image: Alex Delfanne/Stiftung Arp e. V., Berlin/Rolandswerth via sophietaueberarp.org)

The original.

Made with Python in Drawbot.
Bridget Riley’s Rustle 2, reconstructed (2019)


So much of Riley’s work implies motion so clearly that it’s hard not try to imagine what that motion would look like when you run across her pieces. The original (2015, image from David Zwirner’s gallery) is below.


Made in Python with DrawBot.

Mark