Generative Dots
For the Neon 2021 Art Festival in Norfolk, Virginia, I built an interactive tool in p5.js that lets anyone make abstract images with a biased random-walk algorithm: a dot wanders across the canvas, leaving a trail, and sliders control its movement, color palette, and trail behavior.
The bias is what makes it interesting — pure randomness produces noise, but nudging the walk in a direction produces structure. That mix of order and accident is where the compositions come from, and it means people with no programming or design background can still end up with something worth keeping.
Try It
The tool is live at neon2021.neobrutal.com — play with the sliders and see what comes out.