Demonstrating SquiggleDraw - on Generating Art and Documentation.

SquiggleDraw is a generative art project that explores documentation techniques for digital fabrication workflows. Participants are invited to make a scribble drawing based on the scribbles’ qualities: line length, turn radius, point compression; then, they watch as a 2D pen plotter recreate their scribble. The generative art is deterministic – the same parameters yield the same drawing – and the parameters to recreate their scribble are printed on a thermal receipt printer. The choice to document user parameters on a receipt paper is intentional; the physical receipt can be kept alongside the fabricated object to recall settings and track outcomes when testing different parameters.