Desmond Paul Henry was my inspiration for my final project. I like the simplicity of his work, where he repeats a simple shape in a piece and create an interesting dynamic results. I found it fascinating how a simple shape being continuously placed in a certain rule could have so much power on affecting the positive and negative space. Therefore, I decided for my final project to create patterns from repeated arabic letters. The viewer will get to input three letters of there choice and see how it will create new shapes in the negative space (according to a certain rule I set in Processing). The three letters the viewer will input will be English, but the screen will start visualizing Arabic letters according to the pronunciation of the letters. I chose Arabic letters because they have more curves, so they can create more shapes pleasing to the eyes. Moreover, I find it that people are always interested in other cultures, so they will be more interested to try the piece.
