01 / 03Computers and Automation, August 1965. Front cover: A. Michael Noll, Computer Composition with Lines, winner of the 1965 Computer Art Contest.
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Computers and Automation, August 1965
August 1965The annual computer-art contest issue featuring A. Michael Noll’s winning Computer Composition with Lines, two further Noll drawings, and examples from scientific plotting and equipment testing.
- Author / editor
- Edmund C. Berkeley, editor and publisher
- Publisher
- Berkeley Enterprises, Inc.
Newtonville, Massachusetts, USA - Format
- Digitized illustrated magazine
- Pages
- 52
- Language
- English
- Edition
- Vol. 14, no. 8
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Full issueEnglish · 6.5 MB
Complete August 1965 issue, vol. 14, no. 8. Digital facsimile from Bitsavers.
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The August 1965 issue of Computers and Automation awards its annual computer-art contest to A. Michael Noll’s Computer Composition with Lines. The account on page 10 describes a programmed arrangement of horizontal and vertical bars inspired by Piet Mondrian’s 1917 composition.
Page 11 adds Noll’s Vertical-Horizontal No. 3 and Gaussian Quadratic. Together with a CalComp testing pattern and D. J. DiLeonardo’s nuclear-reactor visualization, the selection records the overlapping artistic, mathematical, and technical uses of early computer plotting.
The gallery includes the front cover and the complete contest feature on pages 10–11.
Works reproduced in the gallery
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