5.2.4 - One Hundred Covers

In this Brief, we were asked to generate 100 distinct variations of the cover using a defined set of parameters. These parameters are:

• Page Dimensions
• Grid Design
• Reference Number
• Colour Palette
• Typography
• File Format

Using an app called Processing, I started to write the code for this project. The background colour I first chose was the light purple, the circle colour is shown on lines 5 and 6, i told it to have no stroke and for the fill to be random colours. Lines 11-16 are telling it to make 6 circles per line until it gets to 6 rows, making each circle a random size.

This is the outcome.

I then told it to make 100 as that's what the brief told us to do, and these are all the outcomes.

This was the code after I added the reference numbers from 001 to 100 and got it to save each one as a separate PDF file. I wasn't sure how to do any of this when I started, so I looked on the Processing website to find what functions I needed, but when I tried it, I couldn't get it to work, so I asked ChatGPT to help write it for me. This helped me learn what I was doing wrong and what needed changing for it to work.

This set was an accident. I was trying to save it with each circle a different colour, but they all ended up black. However, I think I like this result better than the random colours.