hardware gradients

The hardware gradients series is an ongoing exploration of constrained visual transitions. Based on an algorithm which guides the visual diminishment or replacement and assembled with familiar components, each piece displays a unique execution of their shared theme.

The materialized form is derived from a square grid. In each successive iteration, a grid is produced with an increasing number of points from each row and column switched or removed. The points in each grid are chosen randomly, but constrained such that in each grid the row and column distribution is equal. The cycle is repeated until the grid has fully transitioned, thus an initial 9 x 9 grid results in a 10-step sequence, etc. When these grids are arrayed continuously, the uniform transformation is made visible.