Last night I watched Silence, a Martin Scorsese film set in 17th century feudal Japan. I zoned out a few times thinking about how to recreate the character’s textile patterns with Python & Drawbot. I gave it a shot when the movie ended.

Learning how to write “creative code” has been on my bucket list for a long time. During the past few weeks I’ve been attending a Python and Drawbot workshop and I’m finally getting the hang of a few things. Here are a few exports from a self-initiated exercise.

Here is the finished result of an exercise that draws a series of dots that change position and color, ultimately forming a gradated grid of color. The code is posted below for anyone who wants to give it a try.