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"Why should I try to do something that nature can do much better? The cube can stand on its own, stacked on top of its peers, joined in a row, as a square or tower, or as a precisely formulated large or small sculpture. The simple basic form invites you to play."
– Betha Sarasin

Betha Sarasin explored the shape of the cube from 1972 to 1988. Early works document how, even before the use of computers, Sarasin anticipated the generative creation of art through drawings, such as varying cubes composed of cut cubes. As early as 1979, she exhibited computer-aided examples of works resulting from her collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials in Freiburg im Breisgau at the Hervé Odermatt gallery in Paris.

For Betha Sarasin, the computer quickly became an indispensable tool for generative work, initially for spherical and cube cuts, and soon for her animated three-dimensional cube spiral. She often combined her plotted spiral images with drawings, many of which were much older.