My favourite Mondriaan picture is Gray Tree:

http://acdn.architizer.com/thumbnails-PRODUCTION/ac/4f/ac4f2...

Very different from the stuff that he's famous for.

Might be interesting to bring up the Piet esoteric programming language: http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html

I'm glad the author got it right about green, but I was surprised not to find any explanation for those who aren't up on their art history.

Last year we had a competition in the Netherlands were people could submit digital recreations in code of Mondrian's 'Victory Boogie Woogie'. Quite a few interesting submissions over here: http://elegant.setup.nl/#inzendingen

I did something quite similar once, though with canvas instead of tables: http://www.dl.unospace.net/mondrian/. I think part of the fun after making a simulation like this is to get silly with the parameters, so crank those sliders but be prepared for your browser to lock up :)

Nice! I made something similar a long time ago — create your own Mondrian painting through the medium of Tetris (warning: sound you can't turn off and bad graphics): http://www.kongregate.com/games/pete205/mondriaan-tetris

Past year there's been a competition organized by Setup where people could enter algorithms for generating art like Mondrian: http://elegant.setup.nl/ (It's in Dutch though..)

I also did a Mondrian painting generator last year. Fun subject to play with. http://www.clementpigeon.fr/mondrian/

Hmm, maybe use something like a fractal algorithm? At least Mondrian is about the disposition of weights and space as it may be found in natural grown structures, like trees ...

OP: institute is a tld now? Seems really obscure.

There are a lot of new TLDs with that property (obscurity). For instance, .camera, .moe, and .plumbing. For other examples, consult the wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...