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Generative Album Covers

This project explores album cover design through code rather than a canvas, using the Random Walk algorithm to generate an infinite series of unique, unpredictable images for an alternative band's cover art.

© 2021 · Academic Project

Generative Design / Creative Coding / Processing

( Concept )

Instead of designing a single fixed cover, I built a system that designs endlessly on its own. The image is represented as a graph, with each pixel as a node connected to its neighbors, and the Random Walk algorithm assigns weights to those connections, letting the code segment and compose the image in ways no two runs ever repeat. Built in Processing, the project treats the algorithm itself as the creative tool, turning a technical process meant for image segmentation into a generative art engine. Every execution produces something visually distinct, giving a band a genuinely endless well of cover art rather than one static design.

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