Technique

Design by Numbers (DBN)

Mentioned in 3 editorials, 1 podcast episode and 3 Timeline moments.

A simple programming language and environment for designers and artists, created by John Maeda at the MIT Media Lab and published in 1999. His students Casey Reas and Ben Fry developed Processing from it.

Design by Numbers (DBN)
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And I feel really confident saying that there's no way Processing would exist without Design by Numbers being there first, and also John really pushing Ben and I both into Design by Numbers.

Casey Reas, 2000s Tooling Era: Casey Reas, Golan Levin, Christiane Paul

With DBN, you were limited to grayscale; you were limited to a canvas that was 100 x 100 pixels.

Golan Levin, Golan Levin on the Potentiality of Blobs

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