Imagine an artist giving the following kind of description of their work phases:

…based on the 5-dimensional Hyper-cube, a structure build[sic] from a set of eighty lines… A subset of twenty lines, containing four lines from each “dimensional-direction” are chosen from this structure. Each “dimensional-direction” consists therefore of four parallel lines, represented by three thin lines and one thick line (drawn in a given 5-dimensional rotation). The work … shows the ten possible combinatorial 2-D projections of such a group of twenty lines at a given rotation.

Can you guess who it could be? “A-ha!”, you say, “Sounds so strange so it must be Dalí!”. But I assure you, there are no melting clocks or burning even-toed ungulates here. Therefore, with high probability, it is not Salvador Dalí. Guess again.

The artist in question is Manfred Mohr. He’s actually been doing computer-aided generative art (that is, art generated with the help of computers or other such computational systems) since the late 1960s.

I’m interested in generative art. Because of that, I subscribe to certain mailing lists with like-minded people. Recently, a link to Manfred Mohr’s work was presented, and because the works are so damn cool I want you to go and check them out too.