Finding Joy in Random Numbers

We love that shape above, and we know we're on to something good when we can trace the design with our finger and it makes us smile. Give it a try! The shapes on the Serendipity tees are generated with code that we wrote, but you don't need a computer to do it yourself, and here's how:

First, we need to draw a square so find a napkin.

Next, put ten dots inside the square in random locations. Better yet, have a friend do it so you have a little less control over the outcome. Have your friend number the dots from one to ten.

Now the fun part: draw a shape that smoothly connects all of the points. Do you like it? Then you're done! If not, try again. It's the trying that we like.

In our case we're using software tools to make these designs and turn them into a grid of shapes that does not repeat. The grid on the shirts is five wide by five high, but it could be a million by a million and still all of the designs would be completely unique. Here's what the spaghetti code looks like from above:

A: Let's draw a square.

B: Make a grid of them, five wide by five tall.

C: Assign ten random dots to each square.

D: Draw that curve!

We're finding that as often as not the resulting random shapes are delightful, and so we curate the ones that make us smile the most and serve them up to you, with love.