The Genesis of Computer Art-FORTRAN (Backus) a Computer Art Medium Creates a Mosaic Mona Lisa

Where did computer system art, laptop or computer graphics and laptop or computer animation begin?

Prepared interaction grew to become sharable and pervasive the moment stone etchings have been replaced with the mobility of paper and ink. Equally at the time computer system languages superior from machine or assembly code to third era computer system languages, only then did laptop or computer output progress from simple alphanumerical (it’s possible mosaic) printouts to graphics and illustrations or photos with sleek curves and realism.

Laptop graphical output obtained its humble start off when alphanumeric figures hammered on TTY and line printers to stand for X-Y graphs and even mosaic visuals. It was crude, but authorized for a more productive analysis of mathematical and scientific methods. Personal computer programming languages like FORTRAN and Simple manufactured it less difficult to build and software printers, plotters and CRT screens to display and print graphics and finally images.

The FORTRAN programming language – a personal and historic small evaluation.

FORTRAN programming as an Art Medium?

So it was achievable to create an alphanumeric printout picture of the famous Mona Lisa using FORTRAN print statements. This picture of the Mona Lisa was performed by printing and about-printing common alphanumeric characters making a mosaic art piece to sort an graphic of that well-known Leonardo da Vinci portray. Stage again from this personal computer printout and you seen a straightforward reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

Accomplishing this rudimentary laptop art would be hours and times of laborous get the job done involving the next actions:

1) You would want to take a duplicate of the first image and a grid (mapping to the 133 character width of a conventional laptop or computer printout web site) on a piece of transparency.

2) Area the grid transparency on best of the image and then fill in the grid cells above the graphic with alphanumeric people that will depict a mosaic of the unique graphic.

3) Highlight those people grid cells that will be overprinted (daring variety) to make shade and texture matching the primary picture.

4) Now you get every single line of the grid and code it making use of FORTRAN print statements.

5) Like a brush to canvas the computer system printout picture of Mona Lisa will get sort just after many times of coding.

For a concluded variation of this method and a resulting computer system mosaic of the Mona Lisa check out out the Pisaca World-wide-web Albums images at: http://picasaweb.google.com/carl.chesal/MonaLisaComputerArtFortran

The lookup has begun for entry to an 80 column punch card reader.

The FORTRAN code for the Mona Lisa Mosaic is on first 90-column punch cards. Obtaining access to an 80-column card reader could aid transferring the Mona Lisa FORTRAN code from its analog point out to a electronic version. Employing an on-line editor, I could at the time all over again deploy the energy of FORTRAN to print copies of ‘computer mosaic’ Mona Lisa. Then ‘Mosaic Mona’ would be accessible for the earth to appreciate.

My infatuation with FORTRAN programming might have stemmed from the simple fact that the two FORTRAN and I had been coincidentally produced in 1954. Thank you John Backus for FORTRAN.