These generative artworks were written in the R Statistics Language, my preferred coding language for research and statistics. Many of these were created in response to events that occurred during the global pandemic, as we watched exploding death rates, extreme apathy and resistance to helping others, and self-interested political leadership that only made matters worse. While the world offered us anxiety and dread, my creative interests turned from largely nature photography artwork to code-based artwork that created different output each time it was executed. I started to "meet" other code artists online who shared my excitement about this artform, with different art backgrounds and technical disciplines from myself that included designers, painters, engineers, biostatisticians. This was a rare chance to make friends and share what we had learned, during the apocalypse. We were fortunate. Daily practice developed my artistic style and themes that span across pieces.

Views from the Apocalypse

Heat 1 (6/29/2021, R code). This generative artwork is part of a two-part series (numbered 1 and 2). The code generated three layers of grids with 10 rows and 8 columns, with orange and yellow shaded lines over a dark blue background. Each grid cell used square and circle coordinates with varying radii and jittered centers to create ~100 lines connecting the two shapes. The variability of each circle and square parameters gradually increased from bottom to top, left to right. The image dimensions for this file are 16x20 inches and 300 DPI, which produced a file size below the 40 MB limit but provides a higher resolution (more detail) than the original 5x5 inch version that was shown online.

Heat 1

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