“It means that each performance of such music piece is unique, as interesting to its composer as to others listening” — John Cage
I enjoyed his talk primarily because I got the chance to see so many different projects using the same concept of balancing chaos and order in coding. The biggest takeaway I had was how certain controlled randomness can make a project predictably unpredictable. I will certainly use this concept in my own project this coming weekend.
I was particularly intrigued by the grid project, in which each dot on the grid is off by an arbitrary amount of pixels. But at what point does the grid stop being a grid? At what point does the randomness outweighs the order and render the whole thing complete chaos and useless? All of this are very subjective and even the randomness can tell a lot about the designer him/herself