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Process 6 by Casey Reas
Casey is computational artist and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He co-created the Processing programming language, which I've fallen in love with recently. It's a free package with provides a powerful and simple graphical environment for all sorts of graphical simulations, and image generation. It's just generally really fun to play with.
View more of Casey's artistic work here.
Graph drawing by Ethan Hein
"simple pleasures" by David Lu
His computational drawings are well worth a look.
LICHTFORMEN, 1953-1955 (by Herbert Franke)
In the early 1960s digital computers became available to artists for the first time (although they cost from $100.000 to several millions, required air conditioning, and therefore located in separate computer rooms, uninhabitable ‘studios’; programs and data had to be prepared with the keypunch, punch cards then fed into the computer; systems were not interactive and could produce only still images).
The output medium was usually a pen plotter, microfilm plotter (hybrid bwn vector CRT and a raster image device), line printer or an alphanumeric printout, which was then manually transferred into a visual medium.
This is a computational drawing generated from code written by David Lu.
I strongly suggest you have a look at his site. It's awesome.
