Something I found interesting was the Great96 software featured as a tool in the Drawingbots website. This tool’s function is to make Islamic geometric tiling patterns. This caught my attention because it is interesting to me to think about the interaction of machines with culture. Cultural practices such as planning and designing these tiling patterns was once a laborious task done by hand, and now with this tool it can be organized and physicalized within a fraction of the time it one did. I am compelled to think about how the labor involved in personally making cultural crafts such as this gives it more value, and inversely how this being done by machines might take away from it; or, on the other hand, could it being made by machines give it a new type of edge or interest?