I remember playing with Spirographs when I was little. It was this drawing toy with little gears that would produce beautiful geometric designs due to its mathematical shapes.
This year I actually learned how to make the same shapes using python on a computer. The result is much faster, and seemingly more intricate, and changeable with a simple backspace and number change. I'm impressed that I do not have to pull out my Spirograph kit and handle the various gears and shapes in order to create the same art that is now so easily accessible. Today, Spirograph programs can be used for all kinds of things up to audio visualization of music. This is possible because computers and the algorithms it uses to create these shapes, can erase and draw faster that I can put my pencil in the little hole of one of the gears in the original Spirograph kit. Modern day technology is faster and more efficient and more intricate than that of the past, and it is exciting to see what has been done to improve art given this new medium.
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