If your problem can be re-expressed in the form “I need to generate a specific sequence of integers” then a shocking number of such problems are actually well-researched.
If you are working in creative computing and digital art then integer sequences can be one great interface for leveraging interdisciplinary work. Others might care deeply about the same numbers sequence that you do – for reasons that relate not to drawing rectangles but instead to cellular biology, or stock-cutting, or metronomes, et cetera…