Computers and Automation, Vol. 21 No. 8 (August 1972) — Tenth Annual Computer Art Contest

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Berkeley Enterprises, Newtonville MA, August 1972. 52 pp., OCR'd scan from bitsavers.org (Computers_And_Automation/197208.pdf), the source link. Tenth Annual Computer Art Contest: pp. 8–19. Cover: A fan of overlapping spirograph-like loops forming a crowned, feathered oval, "Peacock Courtship", signed "(c) Bharat Shah" and printed above a list of the issue's feature articles (Hollom, Parker, Bress, Berkeley, Sprague); the cover itself does not mention the contest. The section (pp. 8-19) is the shortest of the run. The unsigned note awards first prize to Bharat K. Shah of Wichita for "Peacock Courtship", made like its companion "Sunfish" by "the 'computerized Spirograph method'" on an IBM 360/44 and CalComp 760 drum plotter. Response "was good": over 100 drawings, all others honorable mention. The p. 19 list shows about half the entries came from Grace C. Hertlein's students at California State University, Chico, two of them printed: Mike Seaters' "Columbus Plus Two" (a "non-maze, continuous line pattern" of sailing ships) and Steven A. Schmidt's four owls "Who-oo-oo-oo Is Watching You" from the "Diminishing Polygons" assignment. The substantive piece is Kenneth F. Dunker and Paul Shao's "Nine Perspective Projections" (pp. 10-11), the Iowa State campus in flat, spherical and cylindrical projection at 45, 90 and 120 degree views -- "what they believe is the first usage of the computer for perspective projections other than the flat picture plane method" (FORTRAN, IBM 360/65) -- followed by their "Lak Gou" series from CORAD, which repeats a figure anywhere between "absolute control and complete randomness". Manfred Mohr's "Combinatorial Framework of the Ordinal 15" places four unit types by a magic square; Sozo Hashimoto's "Emission-1" is the first NEAC-3200/WX-565 credit; Thomas J. Huston of Computra shows the white-on-black "Sky Lab WVB" and "Flores en Fortranes"; Judy Dayhoff's "Whiskered Frisby" and James Lipscomb's three-point-net "Adversity" round it out. Unpublished entrants include Herbert W. Franke and Edward Zajec. First prize: Bharat K. Shah, "Peacock Courtship", 3005 East 21 St., Wichita, Kansas; "computerized Spirograph method" on an IBM 360 System, Model 44, with a CalComp drum-type Model 760 plotter. Also: Shah's second entry "Sunfish" (p. 8).; All other drawings printed receive honorable mention.. Artists and works as credited: Bharat K. Shah (U.S.A.) -- Wichita, Kansas -- "Peacock Courtship" (cover, first prize), "Sunfish" -- "computerized Spirograph method", IBM 360/44, CalComp 760 drum plotter · James Lipscomb (U.S.A.) -- Belmont, MA -- "Adversity" (three-point nets) -- FORTRAN on an IBM 1130 driving an on-line Calcomp 565 · Kenneth F. Dunker and Paul Shao (U.S.A.) -- Dept. of Architecture, Iowa State University, Ames -- "Nine Perspective Projections" (flat, spherical and cylindrical projections of the I.S.U. campus at 45, 90 and 120 degree views; FORTRAN on an IBM 360/65 with CalComp plotter), "Lak Gou" (CORAD, a FORTRAN IV program, IBM 360/65, CalComp 565 drum plotter) · Thomas J. Huston (U.S.A.) -- Computra, Upland, IN -- "Sky Lab WVB" (FORTRAN, IBM 1130, CalComp plotter), "Flores en Fortranes" (IBM computer with CalComp plotter) -- both Copyright 1972, Thomas J. Huston, Computra · Judy Dayhoff (U.S.A.) -- Silver Spring, MD -- "Whiskered Frisby" -- FORTRAN, IBM 360/44, CalComp 565 off-line plotter · Sozo Hashimoto (Japan) -- Komazawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo -- "Emission-1" (contents: "Emission") -- NEAC-3200 computer with WX-565 plotter, FORTRAN IV · Manfred Mohr (France) -- Paris -- "Combinatorial Framework of the Ordinal 15" -- two routines (labyrinthic paths through a matrix; interpolated curves with hatching), units placed by a magic square summing to 15; no machine stated · Mike Seaters (U.S.A.) -- California State University, Chico (student of Grace C. Hertlein) -- "Columbus Plus Two" -- FORTRAN, run on the CalComp 633 · Steven A. Schmidt (U.S.A.) -- California State University, Chico (student of Hertlein) -- "Who-oo-oo-oo Is Watching You" ("Diminishing Polygons" assignment) -- FORTRAN, run on the CalComp 663 · Entered but not published (list, p. 19): Dr. Shannon Brunjes (Yale University School of Medicine); Ruth E. Dayhoff and Elaine A. Roberts (National Biomedical Research Foundation); Dr. Herbert W. Franke (West Germany); Jacques Gros (I.R.I.A., Rocquencourt, France); Grace C. Hertlein (CSU Chico); Nihan Lloyd-Thurston (Surrey, England); Sidney Robertson (Alexandria, VA); Goran Sundqvist (Kraftdata AB, Stockholm); Tord Tengstrand (Research Institute of Swedish National Defence); Michael Thompson (Kadima, Israel); Edward Zajec (Trieste, Italy); and CSU Chico students Michael Anderson, Max Contreras, Jim Dunford, Dick Freeman, S. Giovannoni, Dorothy Holmes, Jack Lindeman, Linden Livoni, John Lohuis, Tom Mahon, Ross McAninch, Vernon B. Olson, Robert O'Malley, George Riske, Lyle Sankey, Wallace M. Wong, Peter Wu, Edwin C. Young. Rest of the issue: Editorial "The Pursuit of Truth in Input, Output, and Processing" by Edmund C. Berkeley; "Computers in Banking" by J. Q. Hollom (Deputy Governor, Bank of England); "The Antisocial Use of Computers" by Donn B. Parker (SRI); "Secrecy in the Data Processing Industry" by J. L. Dreyer (ADAPSO); "Computers and Cartography" by Dennis L. Bress (CalComp); "The Construction of Living Robots -- Part 1" by Berkeley; "The June 1972 Raid on Democratic Party Headquarters" by Richard E. Sprague; "Lead Poisoning" by Rep. William L. Clay; reprint of "The House Is On Fire"; "Don't Die, Ducky, Don't Die..." (St. Petersburg oil spill); Who's Who notices; Numbles and Problem Corner.