Polar Co-ordinate Figures
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¿Dónde está «Polar Co-ordinate Figures» hoy? Colección: Museo de Victoria y Alberto, Londres. No expuesta por ahora. Comprobado 25 de septiembre de 2026.
Londres, Reino Unido
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In 1968 an electrical engineer at the University of New Mexico, Richard Williams, developed a computer program he called ART1. The new program allowed non-experts to create computer-generated images on the University's IBM 360 mainframe computer, without needing to understand the complexities of computer programming. The images were printed on a line printer, a device that produced a range of alphanumeric characters on continuous computer paper. Artists such as Frederick Hammersley and Katherine Nash went on to explore ART1's creative capabilities.
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This artwork was created using ART2, which was developed by Nash and Ronald Reichenberger at the University of Minnesota. ART2 incorporated several enhancements, including a "polar-coordinate generator" that could generate curves from a fixed point or "pole". In this surviving computer printout, the program's variables are printed on the page preceding the image itself. The characters that feature in the image - right-turn arrows, lower and upper case X's, and triple bars - are specified along with their distribution across the sheet.
Museo de Victoria y Alberto
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- Número de inventario
- E.2805-2016
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- Museo de Victoria y Alberto
- Imagen: Museo de Victoria y Alberto — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
