'The Path prints were the first works I exhibited in a gallery as a solo artist...Each line in these drawings inscribe the history of one software organism; its coordinates at each state of the simulation are connected together...The black-and-white versions of the drawings compress the differences between the organisms into a unified surface.' —Casey Reas
The Path software, originally created in 2001 and restored and modified in 2014, is software that diagrams the motion of Valentino Braitenberg’s Vehicles. Braitenberg was a neuroanatomist who developed a set of minimal machines (“vehicles” in his words) to explore ideas about the evolution of nervous systems. The Path software is an example of converting abstract ideas from artificial life research and speculation into a software drawing machine.