Rachel Shin – LO-6

Aaron Tobey generated a project that involved the mechanics of brainstorming and coding architecture. In his Vimeo video showing the code running, we see 36 rectangular frames generating a randomized series of shapes drawn in each frame. I admired that while the overall piece looked organized, it also included a factor in which it created a chaotic yet cohesive mood. The boundaries of each rectangular frame created a clean structure that contained the chaotic randomness of the architecture shapes inside. I suppose that Tobey first drew the rectangular frames in the code and then generated loops that drew random architecture shapes within each frame. This algorithm then creates the piece that we observe in Tobey’s Vimeo.

Aaron Tobey. “Coding Architecture.” 2015.