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Every image it generates is one of 8 “pieces”, where each “piece” is an algorithm that has some randomness but a predetermined basic design. [1]

My impression is that the instantiations of each “piece” tend to all look the same and have similar aesthetic value. Personally I like Nested Squares, 45 Degree Paths, and Bezier Curves when it chooses rainbow colors. On the other hand, Overlapping Drops is fundamentally ugly (looks like a 5-year-old using a paint program’s stamp tool) and Patterned Lines is usually ugly (too many lines, too much contrast, no antialiasing, reminds me of the Windows pipes screensaver). But I feel like both the good and bad come mostly from the human who wrote the program, not the random generation itself.

[1] https://artvote.net/about



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