RIKEN Annual Research Report FY2000 — Information Science Laboratory (理化学研究所 研究年報 平成12年度 情報科学研究室)

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理化学研究所 研究年報 平成12年度 (RIKEN Annual Research Report, FY2000), p. 60: the one-page entry for the Information Science Laboratory (情報科学研究室, head 矢野安重 Yasushige Yano). Born-digital PDF, open on the internet through the National Diet Library Digital Collection (pid 8793274, file 060.pdf). The laboratory's two subjects are computer art and formula manipulation. Section 1, Development of Computer Art System (Sasaki M.), describes a system that makes works combining the beauty of natural forms, mountains and flowers, with the beauty of mathematical functions. Of the techniques of computer art (wire-frame, data conversion, algorithmic, patchwork, function, fractal, ray-tracing, sensor) the lab develops the function method; the system is called ART and is now at version ART-4, which takes hand-drawn input and fills surfaces from a database of functions, to which grassland and tree functions were added this year. Works made with it were well received at the international Katachi ∪ Symmetry exhibitions. Section 2 is the Sasakis' approximate-algebra work (error analysis of floating-point multivariate Hensel construction). Members: Ms. Mutsuko K. Sasaki; visiting, Dr. Tateaki Sasaki (University of Tsukuba). Publications: 佐々木睦子, 「自然美アピールのためのコンピュータ・アート手法」, コンピュータによる芸術アルゴリズムの研究と創造, No. 14, pp. 3–4 (2000) — the bulletin of the 芸術アルゴリズム研究会 (Art Algorithm research group), on the wishlist here.