In class we paired up and created a set of rules whilst playing with a set of die. One die was six-sided, the other twelve. Using the die we had to create an algorithm to place various shapes on a grid based on the number the die rolled.

Claire and I had an incredibly complicated algorithm that made it very difficult to work out where the shapes would go mathematically, let alone how to do this in coding form. There was also a clear algorithmic preference to stay in a single corner.

For the second half of our algorithmic thinking, we transferred our algorithm into code. For Claire and I this meant we had to simplify our algorithm. Using circles only we can see on the gif below that the algorithm displayed a clear preference for the upper left corner. We made it so that the closer the circles were, the smaller they would become, and the further away, the larger.

It was increrdibly interesting to see our algorithm play out (much faster than we could have done it in our heads) on a screen! Using a colour picker and rgb values I changed the colour palette to be more muted in both blue and purple.