The Script Behind the Play
Prompt: Script

This piece is made from the actual script that created it. Written in p5.js, drawn using a continuous line that mimics my own handwriting, and plotted in a recursive spiral.

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The Imperfect Transfer of Knowledge
Prompt: At Work

Plotted as a single continuous path. The tightly controlled spiral degrades into the chaotic coil on the right is what emerges on the other side. The messy reality of learning.

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Velvet Over Noise
Prompt: Dressing Up

Based on an AI-generated mess. A chaotic, half-formed figure dressed up in imagined luxury. I reassembled it into a single continuous plotted path. It's just dressed up noise without any real substance.
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By the Lake
Prompt: Romance

This piece is based on a photo by Robert Heiser. Two figures sitting quietly by the water at sunset. Drawn in p5.js and plotted as a single continuous line. The simple closeness of being together.

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Organized Chaos
Prompt: In Your Shed

Using p5.js, I processed the image and plotted it as one continuous path. The result is dense and noisy. A kind of organized chaos that every shed seems to live in.
Based on a photo by Carlos Irineu da Costa.

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A Night Under Imagined Stars
Prompt: Camping

There’s something about camping that invites you to look up and make sense of the night sky on your own terms. Points were randomly scattered like stars, then connected into unique constellations.

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Calculated Chaos
Prompt: Scientific

Heavily inspired by @shiffman.lol 's Coding Train, this piece visualizes the path of a double pendulum.
It looks chaotic. But every curve, every loop, every tangled crossing is determined by physics.

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Continuous Rainbow
Prompt: Multicoloured

This rainbow was drawn as a single continuous path with brief pen lifts only to switch out colors. Each colored arc picks up exactly where the last one left off, plotted in p5.js.

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Tangled Portrait
Prompt: Wound Up

This portrait is drawn as one continuous thread, stretched across a circle in a string art algorithm that I wrote. Each line wraps around anchor points, layering over time to reveal the face.

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The Journey So Far
Prompt: Travel

Each point in this drawing represents a place I’ve lived or visited plotted in sequence, connected by the order in which I moved through the world.
No borders, no labels, just distance and direction.

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Etched Beginnings
Prompt: Nostalgia

This piece simulates an Etch A Sketch. Coded in p5.js, plotted in gray. The lines wander like memory of turning knobs and seeing what shows up.
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Spring Has Sprung
Prompt: Spring

Yes, I know the difference.
I just drew a spring.
Coded in p5.js, plotted as one continuous coil. Sometimes the obvious answer is the most satisfying one.

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Attention

Prompt: What You Do to Unwind

This piece is a visualization of my eye movements while playing a video game. These were tracked, mapped, and plotted in p5.js as a continuous red line.

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Above the Basin

Prompt: In the Bathroom

Tilework and geometry drawn in p5.js, plotted in a single line.
A grid of rectangular tiles wraps around a blank circle, placed like a mirror above a bathroom sink.

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Microwaves
Prompt: Household Appliance

This drawing models the standing waves inside a microwave oven. The cup in the center absorbs some of that energy, represented by a change in amplitude.
Created with p5.js, plotted as one continuous line.
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Return to Calm
Prompt: What You Are Looking Forward To

This was plotted starting with noise. A web of overlapping lines created by offsetting each point with variable noise. Over time I hope the noise quiets and things become calm again.

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Soda Bubbles

Prompt: Drink

Bubbles in one continuous path. Each circle was placed then connected to its neighbors in a single, unbroken drawing. Coded in p5.js, exported as SVG, and plotted without lifting the pen.

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I Wish the Rain Would Stay Away

Prompt: Something You Wish For

This piece is based on a chalk drawing my daughter made in the driveway. I traced the contours and plotted it in purple. It’s messy, playful, and a little wild but also temporary.

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Spiraling Blue

Prompt: Your Favorite Color

A spiral a handwritten line of lyrics from the song Blue by Marcy Playground.
The entire spiral was plotted with a single continuous line in light blue, wrapping in and around itself like a memory.

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Children At Play
Prompt: At Play

A single-line rendering of the classic Children At Play road sign.

The shape was extracted using contour detection in p5.js, simplified and plotted. Familiar, iconic, and stripped down to its essentials.
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What’s Inside
Prompt: X Ray

The line is a simplified contour extracted from an actual X-ray of a skull. Processed in p5.js, reduced to sharp, angular boundaries, and plotted in a single unbroken line.

Xray photo by Risto Kokkonen.

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Order Up
Prompt: Bistro

Plotted in code. Served fresh.
This piece was generated using p5.js, exported as SVG, and drawn with a continuous sine-based wave technique modulated by pixel brightness.

Based on a photo by Petr Sevcovic.

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Glucose
Prompt: Something Sweet

I just couldn't resist this one.

This piece is a stylized rendering of the glucose molecule. Created with p5.js, exported as an SVG, and plotted in syrupy-smooth lines with my Cricut.

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Digital Fabric
Prompt: Fabric

This entire piece was drawn with a single, continuous line.
What looks like a tightly woven grid is actually one uninterrupted path.

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Continuous Storm
Prompt: Storm

At first glance, it’s just noise — a chaotic mesh of lines, generated with p5.js, exported to SVG, and plotted in one continuous line using a Cricut. Hopefully the storm emerges.

Based on a photo by Luka Vovk.

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Inescapable
Prompt: Bad Day

Some days, you’re not moving forward — you’re just getting pulled back in no matter how much you try to move forward. Inescapable is a continuous line drawing generated in p5.js, plotted in black ink.

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Hollow
Prompt: Empty

A jagged, angular chaos pressed to the edges… with nothing at the center. Built in p5.js, exported as SVG, and plotted using a Cricut machine in green ink.
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Rhythm
Prompt: Something Red
This piece is called Rhythm — an ode to the heartbeat we all carry.
Drawn in one continuous line using p5.js, exported as an SVG, and plotted on paper with red ink through an old Cricut machine.
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The Daily Grind
Prompt: Something About You

It’s funny how much a line can say about your life. Built from the GPS coordinates of my workday. Each twist, pause, and sharp turn maps the invisible routine I follow.

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The Shape of You - A continuous line drawn in ink for the prompt horror.

This piece is part of a month-long exploration using continuous line drawings generated in p5.js.
Contours were extracted from a photo by Sierra Koder.
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