Random Walk Map Series

This is the near culmination of the most recent project I’ve been working on. These are maps showing various locations that I end up based on generating random, or chance based results such as flipping a coin, or spinning a wheel to lead me in the direction that I go. Each map uses a different method, and each has five separate paths on it.

Map 1: Brooklyn

Using the chance wheel, the choice of forward, backward, left or right is made at every intersection 100 times each.

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Map 2: United States

By flipping a coin, the choice of northwest or southwest is made roughly every 50 miles 100 times each.

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Map 3: World

Using the chance wheel, the choice of which direction to move—in degrees— is made roughly every 500 miles 100 times each.

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Josh Says:
November 16, 2009 at 9:07 pm

i LOVE this project. i do thin you may be dealing with a racist ‘chance wheel’…seem like a specific part of our geography was omited, by ‘chance’…

still, amazing!!!!!!!

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- Chris Says:
  November 17, 2009 at 12:24 am
  
  Thanks. You know, I was really surprised that it worked out that way too, but I was careful to keep an eye out for faulty spin results.
  
  Also, I figured there were two ways I could travel down the streets;
  By having up/down/left/right decided by the compass (i.e. Up=north always)
  or
  by going by the direction you walk, as in you select up, so you walk forward one block; you select down, you go back the way you came. If you then selected up again, you would keep walking straight ahead, not the way that was previously called up, you know? So its always based on the direction you are facing, or more importantly, the direction you were just walking (That sounds ridiculous on paper, wow).
  I did it the second way, because I was worried that my spins could be faulty. This way if left came up more, i wouldn’t always be heading west (four lefts would put me back where I started).
  
  Thanks for looking, and keep coming back to see what I plan to do next. If you like this, you’re gonna love what’s next!
  
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clyde Says:
November 23, 2009 at 4:31 am

I like this one a lot. Thanks for doing the tedious parts.

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