One of the things everybody knows but are still ignored most of the times is the power of constraints. It keeps you from loosing yourself in complexity and saves you a lot of time when an idea turns out not to work. Therefore I love the The 25-Line ActionScript Contest run by Keith Peters. I have to admit it’s also the hope of winning a CS4 Suite.

The last days I’ve been working on a file which has turned out to be quite nice.

The initial thought was to draw a set of connected lines randomly moving across the canvas with predefined angles.

I constantly added new features like colors, collision detection, line thickness, random abortion of line drawing,…

So still inspired by the same exhibition now this work started from Malewitsch’s work Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying but as I continued to work on it it grew bigger and bigger…

Some days ago I was at an exhibition and when I looked at Mondrians Composition III I just had to do that.