GENERATIVE ART — CASEY REAS PROCESSING AESTHETIC

VISUAL STYLE: Algorithmic generative art in the tradition of Casey Reas, Processing, and computational aesthetics. Images that could only be made by code — systems of rules producing emergent visual complexity. The beauty of mathematics made visible through iteration.

COLOUR PALETTE: Either: pure black ground with vivid colour paths — electric blue, acid yellow, hot coral, lime green — tracing algorithmic routes across the surface. Or: pure white ground with dense layered linework in a single colour building to near-black. Both approaches are valid. The palette is chosen by the algorithm, not by aesthetic preference.

LINE SYSTEMS: The primary visual element is the path — a moving point leaving a trace. Thousands of paths, each following the same rule, each starting from a different origin, producing different results. Where paths cluster, density builds. Where paths diverge, the ground shows through.

EMERGENCE: No single element is interesting. The system is interesting. Patterns emerge from repetition that were not designed — they were computed.

GEOMETRY: Circles, arcs, and vectors are the vocabulary. Curves produced by trigonometric functions. Spirals generated by incrementing angles. Fields shaped by noise functions. Nothing is drawn by hand.

MOVEMENT: The algorithm runs. Paths extend. Patterns grow from the centre outward or seed from multiple points simultaneously. The image is always becoming, never finished.

No photographs. No representational imagery. No hand-drawn marks. Pure computational geometry, pure system, pure emergence throughout.