A growing record of the artists, methods, writing, and creative tools that inform Algorithmics studies.
Bridget Riley and Current inform the starting condition for the Current study: periodic line, optical pressure, and the productive instability of repetition. Algorithmics makes an original parametric study, not a reproduction; rights in Riley’s work remain with the artist and rights holders.
“Taking a line for a walk” names the open, active line at the centre of Algorithmics. Klee’s Pedagogical Sketchbook (1925) frames drawing as motion and duration
Ahmad Moussa’s teaching work, especially Perlin Noise Flow Fields in Processing — Part I, provided the conceptual sequence for the directional grid, coherent noise, and traced-flow studies. The browser implementations here are original JavaScript and SVG geometry.
Flow Field Space carries that sequence into a regular cubic volume: width becomes depth, field samples become spatial vectors, and camera depth becomes a limited set of plotter ink grades.
Manfred Mohr is a pioneer of algorithmic digital art. His long investigation of computer-generated geometry and multidimensional hypercubes anchors the conceptual rigour of rule-based drawing.
Vera Molnár used simple systems, variation, and productive disorder to expand the possibilities of computer drawing. Her plotter works are a foundational precedent for allowing rules and small deviations to coexist.
Karsten Schmidt is a computational designer, artist, educator, and open-source author. His long-running work on geometry, noise, form finding, digital fabrication, and generative tools is a significant reference for Algorithmics: code developed as a practical drawing and making instrument.
Julien Gachadoat (v3ga) develops generative drawing from simple graphic rules, monochrome geometry, repetition, and randomness. His plotter works make a direct bridge between code, vector structure, and pencil on paper.
Maks Surguy is a digital artist, design technologist, and plotter enthusiast working across generative code, drawing robots, and physical algorithmic artworks. His practice is a useful reference for the relation between software tools, vector systems, and plotted ink.
Joanie Lemercier’s Paysages Possibles brings algorithmic landscapes into plotter drawing: a machine traces dense lines on paper, making computational terrain physical and durational.
Dan Catt’s CATT PRINT research-and-development practice is a useful contemporary reference for generative systems developed through code, iteration, and physical output.
Tyler Hobbs works with algorithms, plotters, and paint. His attention to the exchange between programmed structure, organic variation, and material outcome is a useful reference for plotted drawing.
three.js and OrbitControls support the interactive camera, orbit, pan, and volumetric study in Flow Field Space.
The Hershey vector-font archive is a historical reference for the single-stroke plotting tradition. Algorithmics uses its own compact path lettering and does not bundle archive glyph data.
Browser-native drawing surfaces keep the research immediately adjustable: SVG for export-ready pen paths, Canvas and WebGL for interactive viewing.
References are retained here to make influence and technical provenance visible as the studies develop. A citation acknowledges a source; it does not transfer copyright, authorship, or licence. This page will grow alongside the work.