Why no two Tidewrite drawings are alike

Mira Okon’s program draws twenty lines of green ink and one of coral, bent around a single swell (sample note).

The seed is a number that sets every choice the program makes: how many lines, where the swell rises, how far the lines lean. Run it with the same seed and you get the same drawing; change one digit and you get a new one.

That is why each edition is named by its seed. Come and see all twelve side by side in Gallery 1.