This is good, interesting news. Many years ago I did some work combining calligraphy and code, but found that art-people didn't appreciate algorithms and code-people didn't appreciate art.<p>Here's a card I made for a friend who said that rc4 was "the most important algorithm that will fit on one page": <a href="http://i.imgur.com/TUeJS7y.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/TUeJS7y.png</a>
I thought this was going to be art generated by algorithms...<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_art" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_art</a>
There's got to be some interesting copyright licensing discussions going on there. Like when Don Knuth declared in 2004 that MacPaint was "the best program ever written", but it took until 2010 to convince Apple to release the source code. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100721233205/http://www.businessweek.com/technology/ByteOfTheApple/blog/archives/2010/07/apple_donates_macpaint_source_code_to_computer_history_museum.html" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20100721233205/http://www.busine...</a>
<a href="https://www.artsy.net/auction/the-algorithm-auction" rel="nofollow">https://www.artsy.net/auction/the-algorithm-auction</a> seems to be the auction in question.
A friend of mine won a poster design competition 10 or so years ago with an entry that was scripted in Flash (ActionScript, or whatever it was). From memory, he had a few other pieces created in the same way, playing around with various functions. Ahead of his time!
> Simply put, an algorithm is a procedure for a process,<p>"Procedure for a process". That's very vague. Might as well write "method of doing".