Generative Art

I really like this piece by Sawako & Panagiotis. I found them from the Scripted By Purpose page. https://scriptedbypurpose.wordpress.com/participants/akt/ 

They are computational design researchers, who tie programming and architecture to generate infrastructure. I picked this image in particular because it looks like something I could try to recreate in p5.js if I spent a good amount of time working on it. 

The piece seems like it consists of one string of a manipulated shape being repeated over and over again, similarly to if you were to draw a series of ellipses or rectangles without redrawing the background. I’m sure a lot more went into rendering this image than just that, but those are my initial thoughts. I’m curious about what sort of functions would create the manipulation of the shape? I am not a numbers person, so navigating this type of computational art is a challenge.