For this workshop, we explored a code constructed to produce a booklet composed of a series of lines. The outcome of this varied based upon the values altered within the code.

The first image is the direct result of executing the code, where a series of random lines are constructed across each page of the booklet.

Initial experiments, the above images present how altered code can effect the outcome of the visual. To create these, specific values were modified with direct regard to tonality and transparency.

The specific code manipulated to achieve this outcome, which has been commented to make understanding it easier upon reflection. The effect of using transparency heightens depth, revealing additional data/ information featured in the background of the graphic outcome that would otherwise be hidden by lines in the foreground. Tonality alters balance, which can be altered to implement as much, or as little, white space as desired.

Further experiments, where an applied alpha of (255, 0, 0) produced a red pigmentation/ tonality. Compositional balance, depth, transparency, white space, and general amounts of linear iterations were manipulated here, documenting key differences throughout the variations.

Implementation of varied RGB values led to the colouration seen above. This was achieved through providing the code document with a rage of RGB values, and initiating for allowed randomness to occur, only between these values. This refines consistency, and limits unordered randomness.

Typographic investigations:

A separate code, this document applies typographic content taken from an external document, imposed with a factor of randomness. This provokes each graphic outcome to be different, yet consistent in its values, structured in the code.

To produce the above alterations, I modified the source data, changing the text file for the font, and changing the text itself from bot generated statements, to the entire screenplay of Blade Runner (1982). This text was selected simply to provide a recognition of the different things you can change.

I took a singular PDF generated in the last experiment into Adobe Illustrator to view the outline map of the random effect. Here, you can clearly see the lines travelling from left to right of the document and how all components are layered beneath what you can see in the finalised visual. The alignment of the text is set to central, as clearly illustrated above.

Further modification of code led to the creation of a more vibrant aesthetic, utilising values I applied to the original random line code. I also gave the text a fill colour of 255, making it white rather than black to better suit the aesthetic I created.