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Finally had time to upload the working version of Command Drawing. Have a look here.

Will be adding a few updates over the next couple days.

Back in 2004 I wrote an as2 program that I called Command Drawing. I never posted it up on shapevent and never really finished it. The basic idea behind it had been inspired by processing and software structures which was a project initiated by Casey Reas - where people like Jared Tarbell and Robert Hodgin were asked to interpret some of Sol LeWitt’s drawings.

I thought it would be interesting to write a program that just interprets drawing instructions like this:

“1000 black circles and 1 large white circle”

… and spits out an image.

I got carried away with the AS2 version, adding lots of strange features that didn’t make much sense… and at some point I just forgot about it.

A few days ago I was at the Moma and saw some of Sol LeWitt’s drawings and was reminded of the project. A day or two later I recoded the basics of the Command Drawing program in about an hour. See some of the results below:

I’ll be uploading the actual program sometime tonight or tomorrow. I just need to get around to creating a simple database to save drawing instructions that people write… so I can see what (if anything) people do with it… will also add a page that contains a list of all the drawing instructions that have been entered…