Hidden Patterns.

Find the algorithm hiding in the artwork.

Hidden inside these three paintings is a pattern. Not a visual trick — an actual algorithm, the kind used in physics simulations and computer graphics.

Watch how the particles move. Adjust the sliders. See if you can work out what each parameter is doing before you read the explanation.

Three works · pick one to start

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01 · Watch

Don't read first. Watch the particles for thirty seconds. Where do they go?

02 · Fiddle

Slide every slider. Predict before you move it. You'll be wrong sometimes — that's the point.

03 · Read

Open the Read panel last. See whether the algorithm matches your guess.

            
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All three explored

Come back here once you've explored all three works. Now look across them — three paintings, three algorithms, one idea about how rules turn into pictures.