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Chance of Rain
TenebrisVia, 2023on objkt
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Émile Borel in his 1914 book "Le Hasard et la Vie", wrote:

"If we suppose a monkey to strike at random the keys of a typewriter for a sufficiently long period, it will end by writing all the works of Shakespeare. In fact, it will write infinitely more; it will write all the possible books, all the imaginable poems. Indeed, in a finite time, it will write all the books that have ever been written and all those that will ever be written."

This plottable SVG was selected from thousands of generated pieces. From a set of 16 nonsensical trigonometry formulas, the system randomly chooses a pair to apply against a noise field. By running these formulas against random points on this field, lines are constructed.

You could say these abstract landscapes were the result of monkeys striking typewriters.... but they hired a human for curating which outputs gave the best chance of rain.