"The first draftsman draws a not straight vertical line as long as possible. The second draftsman draws a line next to the first one, trying to copy it. The third draftsman does the same, as do as many draftsmen as possible. Then the first draftsman, followed by the others, copies the last line drawn until both ends of the wall are reached."
I had the role of being the first draftsman, whereas my other classmates copied my line one after the other. It was interesting to see how people copied other's lines. Imperfections in the lines were greatly exaggerated, so a curve in a line would maybe be twice the size in the next line, etc. As more lines were added, you can see the artistic qualities in the algorithm. The lines started to create patterns and began to almost look like tree-rings. When comparing the last drawn line to the first, the differences were vast. This algorithm actually reminds me of the childhood game of "telephone," where one statement is whispered into one ear and repeated one-by-one to everyone involved and then see if the last person can repeat the first sentence said accurately. Almost 90% of the time it's wrong.
I realized that when I drew the first line, I should have drawn it more "not straight" because then the following draftsman would have exaggerated it even more and created a more unique and abstract piece of art.
My algorithmic art project was slightly similar, whereas instead of lines, a person's signature is written consecutively after one other in one line alternating colors. I imagined that the connected lines would create a sort-of abstract type of art with the different colors and combination of everyone's unique signatures that consist of fastly-drawn, looping lines that all differ from each other.
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