teaching machines

Stella

March 3, 2017 by . Filed under art, public.

Homework assignments usually start brewing in my head well before I actually assign them. Stella, for instance, was born last fall but won’t be assigned until next fall. I also need about that much time to respond to an email.

Stella is a kaleidoscopic drawing application. The user draws on a canvas, and the drawn pixels are automatically mirrored and repeated around the canvas with radial symmetry.

Here are few examples made by family members after the frenzied coding session that brought Stella into this world.