The Genesis of Laptop Art-FORTRAN (Backus) a Laptop or computer Art Medium Results in a Mosaic Mona Lisa
In which did computer art, computer system graphics and pc animation start?
Composed interaction became sharable and pervasive after stone etchings had been changed with the mobility of paper and ink. Similarly after laptop languages advanced from machine or assembly code to 3rd technology computer system languages, only then did personal computer output advance from uncomplicated alphanumerical (perhaps mosaic) printouts to graphics and photographs with easy curves and realism.
Computer system graphical output acquired its humble begin when alphanumeric people hammered on TTY and line printers to symbolize X-Y graphs and even mosaic photos. It was crude, but permitted for a more productive evaluation of mathematical and scientific answers. Computer system programming languages like FORTRAN and Standard designed it a lot easier to acquire and plan printers, plotters and CRT screens to display and print graphics and finally pictures.
The FORTRAN programming language – a personalized and historic quick review.
FORTRAN programming as an Art Medium?
So it was achievable to create an alphanumeric printout image of the popular Mona Lisa applying FORTRAN print statements. This graphic of the Mona Lisa was performed by printing and more than-printing common alphanumeric figures generating a mosaic artwork piece to sort an graphic of that well-known Leonardo da Vinci portray. Stage again from this laptop printout and you seen a basic reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.
Carrying out this rudimentary pc artwork would be several hours and times of laborous perform involving the subsequent actions:
1) You would will need to just take a duplicate of the authentic image and a grid (mapping to the 133 character width of a typical computer system printout web page) on a piece of transparency.
2) Place the grid transparency on prime of the impression and then fill in the grid cells about the impression with alphanumeric characters that will depict a mosaic of the primary picture.
3) Spotlight those grid cells that will be overprinted (daring form) to make shade and texture matching the original impression.
4) Now you consider every single line of the grid and code it employing FORTRAN print statements.
5) Like a brush to canvas the personal computer printout impression of Mona Lisa will just take form after several days of coding.
For a finished variation of this approach and a ensuing pc mosaic of the Mona Lisa look at out the Pisaca Internet Albums visuals at: http://picasaweb.google.com/carl.chesal/MonaLisaComputerArtFortran
The lookup has begun for accessibility to an 80 column punch card reader.
The FORTRAN code for the Mona Lisa Mosaic is on initial 90-column punch cards. Acquiring accessibility to an 80-column card reader could aid shifting the Mona Lisa FORTRAN code from its analog point out to a electronic edition. Employing an on the net editor, I could when once again deploy the electric power of FORTRAN to print copies of ‘computer mosaic’ Mona Lisa. Then ‘Mosaic Mona’ would be available for the planet to take pleasure in.
My infatuation with FORTRAN programming may possibly have stemmed from the reality that equally FORTRAN and I have been coincidentally established in 1954. Thank you John Backus for FORTRAN.
