The Genesis of Laptop or computer Art-FORTRAN (Backus) a Pc Art Medium Makes a Mosaic Mona Lisa
In which did laptop or computer art, personal computer graphics and laptop or computer animation start out?
Composed interaction grew to become sharable and pervasive at the time stone etchings had been changed with the mobility of paper and ink. Likewise at the time laptop languages superior from machine or assembly code to third technology laptop or computer languages, only then did computer system output advance from very simple alphanumerical (maybe mosaic) printouts to graphics and images with sleek curves and realism.
Pc graphical output acquired its humble start off when alphanumeric figures hammered on TTY and line printers to represent X-Y graphs and even mosaic photographs. It was crude, but authorized for a a lot more successful investigation of mathematical and scientific methods. Personal computer programming languages like FORTRAN and Fundamental produced it easier to produce and software printers, plotters and CRT screens to exhibit and print graphics and in the end pictures.
The FORTRAN programming language – a private and historic short evaluation.
FORTRAN programming as an Artwork Medium?
So it was attainable to create an alphanumeric printout image of the well known Mona Lisa using FORTRAN print statements. This image of the Mona Lisa was accomplished by printing and around-printing normal alphanumeric figures making a mosaic art piece to type an picture of that famous Leonardo da Vinci portray. Stage back again from this laptop printout and you seen a basic duplicate of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.
Carrying out this rudimentary laptop or computer art would be hours and days of tedious operate involving the pursuing steps:
1) You would have to have to choose a duplicate of the unique graphic and a grid (mapping to the 133 character width of a regular computer system printout website page) on a piece of transparency.
2) Place the grid transparency on best of the graphic and then fill in the grid cells in excess of the picture with alphanumeric characters that will depict a mosaic of the primary graphic.
3) Spotlight those grid cells that will be overprinted (daring kind) to produce shade and texture matching the first graphic.
4) Now you get each individual line of the grid and code it applying FORTRAN print statements.
5) Like a brush to canvas the laptop printout picture of Mona Lisa will get kind after numerous days of coding.
For a done model of this course of action and a ensuing pc mosaic of the Mona Lisa verify out the Pisaca World wide web Albums pictures at: http://picasaweb.google.com/carl.chesal/MonaLisaComputerArtFortran
The research has started for obtain to an 80 column punch card reader.
The FORTRAN code for the Mona Lisa Mosaic is on authentic 90-column punch playing cards. Acquiring access to an 80-column card reader could aid shifting the Mona Lisa FORTRAN code from its analog point out to a electronic model. Applying an online editor, I could at the time again deploy the electrical power of FORTRAN to print copies of ‘computer mosaic’ Mona Lisa. Then ‘Mosaic Mona’ would be obtainable for the planet to delight in.
My infatuation with FORTRAN programming might have stemmed from the actuality that both FORTRAN and I were coincidentally established in 1954. Thank you John Backus for FORTRAN.