@AlbersBot is a Twitter bot that tweets a new generative art picture in the style of Josef Albers and his Homage to the Square series.
This bot generates a Canvas picture with three or four squares, by choosing at random one of the four formats used by Albers, and filling each square with a random colour.
Homage to the Square is a series of paintings and prints by Josef Albers, begun in 1950 and continued until his death in 1976. In this series, Albers explored chromatic interactions and variations, using always one of four different compositional schemes of three or four squares set inside each other.
"For me colour is the means of my idiom. It’s automatic." Josef Albers, 1966
To test the bot locally, you will need a Twitter developer account, and Twitter app API keys and user access tokens
Create and an .env file and set the environment variables for the following API keys : 'consumer_key', 'consumer_secret', 'access_token', 'access_token_secret'.
Run node bot.js to send a tweet.