So continuing on the previous series of Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance, after Ellsworth Kelly based on the 8 primary TV test colors, what would happen if I put more rules on the randomness?
I decided to build some more rules in the system. The colors now had to randomly chosen, but had to be positioned next to their original neighbors in the test graphic:
![](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/カラーバー-1-1024x712.png)
So cyan could follow yellow, or cyaan, or green. I started at the top left with a random color, and filled the image row after row, and every new square considered the square that was already placed before it, to the left and to the top:
![EK S4 16](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/EK-spectrum16-1024x1024.png)
predictably: a diagonal tendency emerged. Again; I made a 1000 versions, then selected the 10 I liked best. Some of these I chose for the extreme lack of different colors. Others because they reminded me of primitive Teletext art, and I began seeing roads with puddles in them, and faces of monsters and pinups.
![EK S4 34](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/EK-spectrum34-1024x1024.png)
![EK S4 151](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/EK-spectrum151-1024x1024.png)
![EK S4 378](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/EK-spectrum378-1024x1024.png)
![EK S4 453](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/EK-spectrum453-1024x1024.png)
![EK S4 484](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/EK-spectrum484-1024x1024.png)
![EK S4 504](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/EK-spectrum504-1024x1024.png)
![EK S4 561](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/EK-spectrum561-1024x1024.png)
![EK S4 594](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/EK-spectrum594-1024x1024.png)
![EK S4 970](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/EK-spectrum970-1024x1024.png)
These are also available as NFTs on OpenSea.