A vocabulary
for making.
Name what you see. Change how it behaves. Trace the people behind a method.
A simplified original looping exercise. Adjust the settings to change its behavior. It illustrates a visual quality; it is not a reconstruction of an artist’s work or a complete implementation of every linked technique.
Visible quality
Possible mechanism
Interpretation in context
Meanings depend on culture, use and experience. These prompts invite interpretation; they do not assign fixed meanings to shapes.
Trace the contribution
A brief for a person or an agent
For a class: describe the pattern without naming an artist, change one parameter, compare the readings, then investigate the linked contributions.
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This is a working vocabulary, not an exhaustive taxonomy. A recipe link identifies a useful method, not a sole inventor of a visual quality or proof of influence.