A string is dragged along the outline of a differential growth, tracing its path along the way.

This work is the result of a question I asked myself while experimenting with new techniques: What would it look like if you traced the path of a string as the front end is pulled around? In this piece, 200 points along the length of a string are traced as the first point is moved along the outline of a differential growth. As you move down the length of the string, the path becomes a more general representation of the overall movement of the differential growth.

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Made entirely with code written in P5js, by Joshua Bagley, September 2021