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## Vera Molnár

| [![DesOrdres](https://media.ollin.art/examples/Recreations/VeraMolnar/DesOrdres/still-640.jpg?v=18751e3f)](desordres.md) | [![Interruptions](https://media.ollin.art/examples/Recreations/VeraMolnar/Interruptions/still-640.jpg?v=45d718bd)](interruptions.md) |  |  |
|---|---|---|---|
| [DesOrdres](desordres.md) | [Interruptions](interruptions.md) |  |  |

**Vera Molnár** (1924-2023) was a Hungarian-French artist and a pioneer of generative computer art. She was among the first women to use computers in a fine-art practice. From the late 1960s she wrote programs in Fortran and BASIC and drew the results with plotters. Her programs explored simple geometric forms (squares, lines, rule-based compositions) and, above all, the tension between **order and controlled disorder**. She introduced small, deliberate amounts of randomness into rigorous grids, which she called her "1% disorder", the phrase she is best known for.

Learn more:

- [Vera Molnár on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Moln%C3%A1r)
- Notable works and series: *Interruptions* (1969), *(Dés)Ordres*, *Transformations*, and her studies of concentric squares.

### Recreations here

- [**Interruptions**](interruptions.md), a field of short line segments at random rotations. A noise threshold omits some of the segments. The grid is the order, and the rotations and gaps are the disorder. It is after Molnár, in the spirit of her *Interruptions* (1969). **Click to recreate** a new variation.

  ```sh
  swift run Example-Recreations-VeraMolnar-Interruptions
  ```

- [**(Dés)Ordres**](desordres.md), after Molnár's [*(Dés)Ordres*](https://dam.org/museum/artists_ui/artists/molnar-vera/des-ordres/) (1974). It draws a grid of concentric squares, and each square is drawn only ~95% of the time, so the orderly nesting breaks down into disorder. The title is a pun: *désordres* (disorders) versus *des ordres* (some orders), which points to the logic within the apparent disarray. `mouseX` seeds the randomness, so moving the mouse scrubs back and forth through the patterns.

  ```sh
  swift run Example-Recreations-VeraMolnar-DesOrdres
  ```

These sketches are homages after Vera Molnár, made for learning. They are not reproductions of specific works. They are not affiliated with or endorsed by the artist or her estate.