Week 3 Response

Experiment: "Click to Mayhem"

In Click to Mayhem, the ellipse vector begins by moving smoothly and continuously. With each click, the ellipse vector can either change color, change its x velocity, change its y velocity, or increase its velocity. As the ellipse vector increases its speed, the ellipse’s path becomes more discrete, making it more difficult to see clearly the shape of the ellipse’s path. The entropy increases and the chaos ensues… Until eventually the ellipse just stops and lets itself start again with a fresh slate.

Computing is becoming more immersed in contemporary culture. Most would not think of computing being a part of art, but rather, a part of science or technology. However, contrary to popular belief, it is indeed can be used for art and is difficult for people to distinguish between whether a poem was written by a person or a bot. I looked at “Overwhelm the Hot Depth of the Hush Muff” and, along with 54% of votes, thought it was written by a bot. It was written by a human. After looking at Context Free Grammars, I was sure that the bot would write only by using grammar rules and would not put take context into account. Thus, in the poem, it seemed a little random at first, so I thought it must have been a bot.