I found the assigned video Casey Reas’ Eyeo talk on chance operations very interesting, as I could observe how, from the simplest of algorithms, we can create and simulate something that we can see in real life. For example, if a designer wants to create a maze without crafting everything at hand, the designer could, in theory, just make an algorithm to create a series of maze-like patterns and just translate them into real life.
Not only that, but I did not realize that real life is composed of multiple algorithms, thus changing my belief that algorithms are not exclusive to only computers. We can translate real-life algorithms into computer code to simulate them, and it is even possible to create art by combining multiple real-life systems into code. So if I want to create a piece of art that combines trees and vegetables, I find it possible to create an algorithm to create trees with vegetables on them.