There is no such thing as art, there is only work. Most work is done to physically benefit oneself or another, while some work is done only to entertain, and occasionally to enliven.

The Grid Graph Explorations were inspired by the book Design By Numbers. This book introduces the simplistic DBN language, which can basically only plot grey-scale on a pixel field of 101 by 101 pixels. By using loops, basic functions definition, and reading of mouse and keyboard interaction, DBN can result in some interesting programmatic art.

These images show the progression of a for loop, and in particular how one small change in the code can alter the outcome quite interestingly. Although inspired by DBN, the work was actually created by hand in a path editing program, largely though number entry. The code appearing in the lower right corner of each full piece is in fact pseudo-code bearing a resemblance to DBN, which itself is a kind of pseudo amalgamation of other simple higher level languages. Neither of the two variations on the code -- reflect and rotate -- denote any programmatic solution to the coloring of the "cyan" variations.

The nine variations as a whole illustrate digital art's main strength, being that the same basic concept can be worked on from a minimal state to a more detailed state without loosing any of the communicative strength of the intermediate stages. In traditional media such stages cannot be directly used to further develop the artwork if they themselves are to be preserved. Thus even without an algorithmic or programming approach, digital media can still offer significant labor reduction when the artist produces a series of works as opposed to a single piece.

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