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Re:2020 Mathematical Art Exhibition by bane on Friday January 08, 2021 @02:19PM (#25688904)
I wonder what it might take to get demoscene productions considered in some of these art collections.
Re:2020 Mathematical Art Exhibition by carapace on Friday January 08, 2021 @03:27PM (#25689993)
Certainly Turing Drawings should count? http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/ (no pun intended.)
Re:2020 Mathematical Art Exhibition by thewebcount on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:57PM (#25692747)
That's really cool! Many of these end up looking like random noise. (So maybe they're PRNGs?) I love the way this one starts out before it devolves into noise:

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#5,3,3,2,3,1,2,2,1...

Re:2020 Mathematical Art Exhibition by carapace on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:00AM (#25700844)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_30#Random_number_generati...

> Rule 30 generates seeming randomness despite the lack of anything that could reasonably be considered random input. Stephen Wolfram proposed using its center column as a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG); it passes many standard tests for randomness...