One Hundred Symbols (2020)
The book has one hundred pages. There are one hundred symbols in the book. Each symbol is drawn as a collection of small symbols.
One of these small symbols appears exactly once in the entire book.
The contents of each book are procedurally-generated. Only one hundred of these will be created.
All one hundred books are unique.
Each book is signed by the artist.
Tech Stack
Unity C#
The software to generate the books is written in Unity 2020. The algorithm reads texture data from the symbol grid source image to determine where symbols should be drawn on each page. It also determines an arrangement of symbols that guarantees one symbol will appear exactly once across the entire 100 pages. Generated images are created at an ultra-high resolution, to ensure 600dpi printing on a 30cm square page.
The generation algorithm uses a unique seed for each book, so that the book will always turn out the same for that given seed.