Computers and Automation, Vol. 20 No. 8 (August 1971) — Ninth Annual Computer Art Contest

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Berkeley Enterprises, Newtonville MA, August 1971. 52 pp., OCR'd scan from bitsavers.org (Computers_And_Automation/197108.pdf), the source link. Ninth Annual Computer Art Contest: pp. 8–23. Cover: Two plotted sea horses built from a repeated spiky building-block, "Seahorses" by Derby Scanlon (Phoenix, Arizona; FORTRAN on a GE 425, Calcomp 30" drum plotter), captioned "9th Annual Computer Art Contest -- First Prize" beside a list of the issue's feature articles. The section runs pp. 8-23. The unsigned note gives first prize to Derby Scanlon of Phoenix for "Sea Horses", shown with "Sailfish" and "Phoenix": all three share "a common building block, which was computed and plotted by one subroutine", nearly all "described mathematically", FORTRAN on a GE 425 and a Calcomp 30" drum plotter. Over 140 drawings came from Czechoslovakia, France, Holland, Japan, Sweden and the U.S.; each credit now carries the artist's country, and the p. 23 list shows Kawano, Knowlton, Schwartz, Strand, Hendricks and Robbins entering without being printed. The strongest group is Manfred Mohr's three numbered programs: "Floating Points" (no. 62, spline-interpolated moving circles, FORTRAN IV on a CDC 6400, Benson plotter), "Serielle Zeichenreihung" (no. 71, symbol columns generated as a logical tree) and "A Formal Language" (Programs 28 and 49, circles and 0-7-line symbols on a 1280-box grid, "the effect of hieroglyphic writing"). Also: Herbert W. Franke's "Drakula" (his first C&A appearance), Peter Struycken's line-printer "Computer Structure" on the X8, Hashimoto's five paisley patterns (IBM 7040), Sundquist's Datasaab D22/Tektronix 611 "Bridge Over Troubled Water", Kilian and Kulczynski's perturbed-sine sphere "Black Star" (Univac 1107), Dayhoff and Roberts' "20,000 Lines Under the Sea", Sumner's "Snow Crystals", Daly's digitized Picasso "Don Quixote", Hertlein's "Deer and Fir Trees", and the joke entry, Ed Jenner's Boston Globe aerial photo "Natura Mainensis", whose analog computer is the Penobscot River and whose elements are logs. First prize: Derby Scanlon, "Sea Horses" (cover spells it "Seahorses"), 1308 W. Whitton Ave., Phoenix, Arizona; FORTRAN programs on a GE 425 computer, plotted on a Calcomp 30" drum plotter. Also: Scanlon's companion entries "Sailfish" (p. 8) and "Phoenix" (p. 9), built from the same subroutine.; All other drawings printed receive honorable mention.. Artists and works as credited: Derby Scanlon (U.S.A.) -- Phoenix, Arizona -- "Sea Horses" (cover, first prize), "Sailfish", "Phoenix" -- FORTRAN on a GE 425, Calcomp 30" drum plotter; one subroutine computes the common building block · Grace C. Hertlein (U.S.A.) -- Computer Science Dept., Chico State College -- "Deer and Fir Trees" -- by-product of her course "Computer-Graphics as an Art Form"; no equipment stated · Leonard Kilian and Campion Kulczynski (U.S.A.) -- W. Hartford, CT / Notre Dame, IN -- "Black Star" -- FORTRAN on a Univac 1107 with a Calcomp 563 plotter · Sozo Hashimoto (Japan) -- Komazawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo -- "Paisley Patterns" (five paisley shawl patterns) -- IBM 7040 programmed in FORTRAN IV · Ed Jenner (U.S.A.) -- The Boston Globe -- "Natura Mainensis" -- a helicopter photograph of logs on Seboomook Lake, the Penobscot River being the "analog computer" (reprinted from The Boston Globe, June 5, 1971) · Goran Sundquist (Sweden) -- Kraftdata Aktiebolag, Stockholm -- "Bridge Over Troubled Water" -- "Dart computer art algorithm" on a Datasaab D22 with Tektronix 611 display, photographed on microfilm · Thomas J. Huston (U.S.A.) -- Computra, Upland, IN -- "Reflections" -- IBM 1130 and Calcomp plotter (Copyright 1971, Thomas J. Huston, Computra) · Dr. Herbert W. Franke (West Germany) -- 8191 Puppling Nr. 40 -- "Drakula" -- no equipment stated · P. Struycken (Holland) -- Arnheim -- "Computer Structure" -- X8 computer, line-printer output · Ruth E. Dayhoff and Elaine A. Roberts (U.S.A.) -- National Biomedical Research Foundation, Georgetown Univ. Medical School, Washington -- "20,000 Lines Under the Sea" -- FORTRAN on an IBM 360/44, Calcomp 565 off-line plotter · Manfred Mohr (France) -- Paris -- "Floating Points" (Program no. 62; FORTRAN IV on a CDC 6400, Benson plotter), "Serielle Zeichenreihung" (Program no. 71), "A Formal Language" (Programs 28 and 49; signed MOHR 70) · Lloyd Sumner (U.S.A.) -- Computer Creations, Charlottesville -- "Snow Crystals" -- Burroughs B5500 and Calcomp 565 (Copyright 1970 by Computer Creations) · James Daly (U.S.A.) -- St. Louis University, Yalem Scientific Computer Center -- "Don Quixote" -- digitized Picasso lithograph, standard Calcomp software on a Control Data 3300 · Entered but not published (list, p. 23): Charles Bromley (Computra); Jan Chlouba (Prague, Czechoslovakia); Henry P. T. Corley (Analog Computing, Richmond); Dr. G. J. Foley and E. S. Grysiewicz (American Oil Co.); Paul R. Gerding (St. Louis University); Mrs. Leigh Hendricks (Sandia); Hiroshi Kawano (Tokyo); Ken Knowlton, Hank Magnuski and Lillian Schwartz (Bell Telephone Labs); Mutsuko Kunii (Tokyo); James S. Lipscomb; H. M. Maynard (Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory); Don Mittleman (Notre Dame); B. C. Munday III (Systems Engrg. Labs); Dr. Donald K. Robbins (Sandia); R. W. Seeley (McDonnell Douglas Automation); Bharat K. Shah (Wichita); Kerry Strand (Calcomp); Charles Volkstorf; Ed Volkstorf. Rest of the issue: Editorial "Learner-Controlled Computer-Assisted Instruction" by Edmund C. Berkeley; "The Uses of Computers in a Political Campaign" by Edward Yourdon; "The Japanese Computer Market -- Characteristics Adversely Affecting U.S. Trade Interests, Part One" by Stephen T. McClellan; "A Systems Approach to Job Hunting" by Thomas V. Sobczak; "Skepticism of Official Government Explanations" by James D. White and the Editor; "Jim Garrison, District Attorney, Orleans Parish, vs. the Federal Government" by Bernard Fensterwald; "The Pentagon Papers and Daniel Ellsberg" by Daniel Ellsberg and the Editor; Numbles, Problem Corner and the Across the Editor's Desk departments.