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Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #118 (Color)

This is a color version of my previous black and white study of Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawing #118. See that version for my comments on LeWitt’s conceptual and minimalist process.

My attempt has been to assign a unique color to each “point” or vertex, and then have the lines connecting each pair of vertices (points) be a gradient color transition from one point to the other. This is indeed happening in many cases, however is appears that in some lines the transition is reversed. So I will have to iron out this glitch in the algorithm as some point (many points). But I don't actually mind the “noise” that is introduced by the lines with reversed gradients. It adds a kind of color texture.

LeWitt commonly had other persons follow his simple directions for executing the actual creation of his many wall drawings using pencils or crayon. I and many other have experimented with recreating LeWitt’s drawings on the computer by mostly hewing to his simple directions. Some people have also worked out color versions.[1] My own intention is to next do a version in three-dimensional space. My ethos is to steal like an artist[2], attempting to learn something along the way and to experiment with further extensions of the idea.