Spot painting, randomly

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Damien Hirst and random point patterns
Author

Tuomas Rajala

Published

October 16, 2016

Damien Hirsts’ paintings with random coloured dots on white canvas go for thousands, e.g. this 8x6 regular grid “Mythos” spot-painting, canvas size 50.0 x 71.1cm, with price tag of £15k-20k in late 2016.

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As I work with points scattered on various sub-spaces, I decided to write a small Shiny-app for generating such spot patterns. Here is an example with similar specs as the £20k painting:

Generated automatically

The app is available at Shinyapps, “Spot painting”. Go explore your own colourful spot designs!