Ben: Line Drawing

Posted on by Rob Myers Posted in Generative Art

I think that AARON’s basic line drawing algorithm is probably the one described in Harold Cohen’s essay “On Purpose”, or at least a descendant of it.

I’ve implemented a version of this algorithm to use for Ben. It needs tuning up but here’s an example:

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3 comments on “Ben: Line Drawing”
  1. Dustin Eyejuice says:
    February 22, 2008 at 8:23 am

    Call yourself an artist? I could draw better than that.
    Try holding down the Control key when you do a line.
    – Dustin

  2. Rob Myers says:
    February 22, 2008 at 8:25 am

    Dustin, I call the program an artist. I will modify the program to feed #\ctrl to the keyboard server and see how that goes

  3. Dustin Eyejuice says:
    February 22, 2008 at 8:26 am

    Computers are not artists.
    Computers are only good for breaking into banks, Facebook and web sites.
    – Dustin