This video records the results of a simple experiment. Clement Valla designed an online drawing tool with one function. Users traced a line on the screen. Beginning with a straight line, the first user attempts to copy the line perfectly. The second user copies the first user's line and so on. Eventually the tiny imperfections in each line continue to distort the original picture, a straight line. This simple experiment demonstrates the potential power of small mutations as they add up over time. Valla produced a similar video beginning with a circle, with similar results. I may attempt to reproduce the results in a class experiment this year. Looks like fun.
Enjoy!
A Sequence of Lines Traced by Five Hundred Individuals from clement valla on Vimeo.
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