It takes a lot of monkeys with a lot of paintbrushes a very, very long time to even complete a paint-by-numbers. This is worlds away from simple randomness; I i

It takes a lot of monkeys with a lot of paintbrushes a very, very long time to even complete a paint-by-numbers. This is worlds away from simple randomness; I invite you to try "just hit[ting] random" and see what happens. The art is in finding restrictions on the process, and that has clearly happened in these images. (Incidentally, that's also the case in "traditional" media too.)