Mari Kubota- Looking Outwards- 06

A program by a computational mathematician Andrej Bauer generates a piece of art randomly when you put in a title. The program is implemented in ocaml with the online version being implemented using ocamljs. How the program works is that the title you input becomes a seed for a number that is used to construct a mathematical formula which determines the placement of each pixel on the canvas. The art itself isn’t randomly generated each time since the same title yields the same results. The name of a picture should consist of two words with the first word determining the colors and the layout of focal points, and the second word determining the selection and arrangement of graphical elements. Therefore, by changing the first word and keeping the second, the colors and the layout change while the style remains the same. As a result, keeping the first word and changing the second one leads to a very different picture. The program is implemented in ocaml with the online version being implemented using ocamljs. 

I found this program intriguing because rather than making art completely random, Andrej Bauer found a way of using mathematical algorithms to equate a specific word to a specific image that never fails to change.