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“draw tangent to...”

emergent patterns

about
These images were generated as large pdfs from a Processing program. They were intended to be printed at the size of 100cm X 70cm. The basis of the program is that two lines are draw tangent to a circle, and when a line hits something, another circle is drawn, and so on and so forth. Very much inspired by the work of Jared Tarbell's "Substrate".
program
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You can see how the program doesn't finish drawing one circle before moving on to the next, so interesting gaps are created.