Learn computational art from the people who started it.
Each lesson tells the story of an artist like Vera Molnár or Sol LeWitt, then gives you a tool to make work the way they did.
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Order and Disorder
Vera Molnár (1924-2023)
Strict geometric order, plus a controlled 1% of disorder.
This whole site started in front of a Molnár. The tool rebuilds her disorder experiments, and you decide how much disorder goes in.
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