HOW A DRAWING IS MADE
Watch recorded pen passes or follow actual stages of the material renderer. Each material uses the same underlying composition, but changes how its marks are made.
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Use Next to follow individual source paths, or successive paint layers for Action Painting.
The blank page
The seed controls reproducible choices. No marks have been placed yet.
The actual numbers — show the mathematics (optional)
A short breakdown of this pen pass. The original SVG commands are available separately.
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Why the pen goes over a line again
The artist-like finish comes from drawing the same path more than once, with small changes in position, thickness and ink strength.
From the page to the exhibition
In the virtual exhibition, some portrait drawings become sculptures: their marks are traced into solid shapes and placed on plinths. Portraits that aren't made into sculptures hang on the walls as paintings, alongside the landscape works.
Each day's rooms are planned from that day's date and drawings, so the exhibitions grow and change.
For the thinking behind the project, read About This Project. You can also make a drawing of your own.
The drawings come from the code itself. See the PROPORTION PIECE source repository for the rules behind them.