I needed color palettes for my design projects that would offer not just individual colors, but all the subtle steps between them. To create these gradients, I developed a custom GPT that plots my chosen hex codes onto a 1080-pixel grid, then used these coordinates in Adobe Illustrator to blend each shade naturally into the next, creating unexpected color interactions based on their randomized positions.

The process revealed something fascinating about AI's relationship with randomness—even when explicitly asked for random coordinates, the GPT kept trying to create subtle patterns or logical progressions. Through a series of conversations where I had the GPT analyze and correct its own logic, I was able to guide it toward generating the truly unpredictable placements I needed. The resulting gradients serve as both practical color studies and happy accidents, giving me rich sampling opportunities for design work while creating compositions that neither I nor the AI could have predicted.