week 6 blog

The article I ended up finding the most interesting wasn’t about a particular artist, it instead talked a bit about the history of randomness and then the application of randomness in art among other things now. One example that was given was in the field of architecture, randomness is used for things that are unimportant like blades of grass. But in other cases the randomness can be used to reveal patterns that were previously unnoticed or not given enough attention. Another example uses randomness to generate randomness which creates intrigue and surprise in designs. An example that I can think of is a website called coloors which uses random generation to create color palettes and when you save a color you like it bases the next colors off of that one. Although it isn’t completely random, it still is to some extent even if it does have limitations. I guess it’s more like a gaussian random function because it has some limitations that can be incorporated.