Aaron Penne Portfolio

The machine does not create. It executes. The artist creates by defining the boundaries within which the machine operates, the rules it follows, the seeds from which patterns emerge. When I write code that produces visual output, I am not delegating creativity to an algorithm. I am encoding my aesthetic sensibilities, my understanding of form and color, my sense of what feels right and what feels wrong. The computer is my brush, and the code is the gesture. Process and

Color in digital space is not paint. It is light. It is numbers. RGB values that our screens translate into photons, wavelengths that our eyes interpret as sensation. Working with color computationally means understanding this translation. A palette is not a set of pigments but a set of coordinates in a multidimensional space. HSL, LAB, OKLCH—each color model offers a different geometry for navigating that space. Perceptual Uniformity The challenge of digital color is perceptual uniformity. In RGB space, equal