Emily Xie is a visual artist and engineer living in NYC. She works with algorithms as a medium to create organic textures and forms.

For instance, in my own practice, the patterns that you see in my own artworks are in fact unique across each invocation, never to be precisely repeated again.
Emily Xie, Emily Xie on Textile as Personal Canvas
For instance, to algorithmically create the grain of aged collage paper, one can draw repeated faint lines of varying lengths over and over again in a random distribution throughout the canvas.
Emily Xie, Emily Xie on Textile as Personal Canvas