this time they were supposed to start in the same middle point, facing the same direction and vary the circumference of each circle by varying the distance traveled before turning. This should have resulted in a set of evenly spaced, perfectly uniform rings aligned to the right, all touching in exactly the same place. Some…

If I let this one run too long I get a spirograph drawing, which I find uninteresting. A couple of the early states, though, aren’t bad. This is actually a failure of a different type. I failed to understand how I was making the circles and thought I was going to get concentric ones. Instead,…

These are “failure” states. Failure because they exhibit a behavior way outside the parameters I set. These actually crashed Hopscotch. I haven’t yet given myself the chance to judge them on their own visual merits. There are earlier states of this series that approach “pretty”, I saved one or two for each. I set the…

trying compositions with randomly placed circles of three sizes in Hopscotch. Color is randomized from 1-9. Hopscotch presents us with a palette of 9 colors, so I assumed they would be given an index number. It does respond but I haven’t checked to see which number corresponds to which color, nor if there is a…

I deleted Hatch from my iPad. This screen was the tipping point. The loyalty/trust metric is a problem.

cyborges: ounu: On Jorge Luis Borges’ creative process during his later years: “María Kodama described for me how, later in life, the blind Borges composed. After a light breakfast, he would sit in a comfortable armchair, in his front room, at about nine in the morning. He would lean his head back. Sometimes, one of…