Month: November 2021

In my exploration in procedural art, I found this machine called a pen plotter. Also known as XY plotter.

The way they work is by coding certain instructions on a computer you program the pen to mechanically move and follow the movements assigned on the code, this creates a generative drawing in a physical medium.

Most of these machines are pricey, but there are ways to build them DIY for less than 100 pounds.

The program used is ‘processing’. I have basic knowledge on this program, and I want to explore this idea in the future.

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Sol LeWitt was an American minimalist and conceptual artist. He worked with code or procedures, similar to generative art, but in his case. He does the code and then it is made by a human, instead of letting a machine do the work.

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Here you can see some instructions written by Sol LeWitt. He didn’t do the drawing himself, he was the conductor/architect.

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And here is the result.