Estaban:
You bring back some very old memories. My first obsession with mathematics
was through polar plots. That such beauty could be generated through a few
symbols was incredible to me. Three years later in high school, I saw this:
http://www.knowltonmosaics.com/pages/HKnewd.htm
somewhere. It was Knowlton's work. I think I wrote some sort of ridiculous letter to
him and he actually replied. Big influence. I ended up writing FORTRAN code to
draw plots and print banners in ASCII. Note the closeup which appear to be
symbols for diodes, transistors, and arithmetic operations.
-p
On Aug 27, 2013, at 12:33 PM, esteban garcia <estebang@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings Yasmin,
>
> I have been following this thread with interest, reminding me of the very
> origins of computer art. Art practices can inform scientific processes vice
> versa.
>
> The Bell Research Laboratories activities during the 1960s are an example
> of how artistic experimentation led to the discovery of new technologies. A
> select group of scientists were asked to be creative to make something
> without a set goal in mind. They were invited to experiment or play with
> technology, in order to foster innovation; the results were outstanding.
> Thanks to the experiments, digital photography was created by the
> collaborative efforts of artist Ken Knowlton and Leon Harmon in 1966.
> Another case is Purdue University Professor Aldo Giorgini (1934-1994), who
> produced some of the first color and three-dimensional river simulations.
> While a professor of Civil Engineering since 1967, Giorgini excelled both
> as computer artist and computational hydraulics pioneer.
>
> A good text to review with this history is Enrique Castaño's dissertation,
> fully online, but unfortunately not translated:
> http://www.enriquecastanos.com/tesisindice.htm
>
> Thank you,
>
> Esteban García
>
>
>
>
>
Paul Fishwick, PhD
Chair, ACM SIGSIM
Distinguished Chair of Arts & Technology and Professor of Computer Science
The University of Texas at Dallas
Arts & Technology
800 West Campbell Road, AT10
Richardson, TX 75080-3021
http://www.utdallas.edu/atec/fishwick
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