Probabilistic Cellular Automata in the Visual Arts

Author(s):
Merks, R.M.H. (0000-0002-6152-687X)
Editor(s):
Louis P-Y., Nardi F.R.
Published
2018
Publication type
Part of book or chapter of book

Abstract

In January 1970, computer scientist Leo Geurts walked into Swart Gallery in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, to see the solo exhibition by Dutch artist Peter Struycken (The Netherlands, 1939). He was struck by Struycken’s black and white works “Computerstructuren” (1969), which were painted after grid patterns generated by algorithms. Geurts assumed that they must have been produced using cellular automata. He started working with Lambert Meertens at Mathematisch Centrum (now CWI) in Amsterdam to make a similar work.

Date issued
2018-02-22
Language
English
Publisher
New York: Springer International Publishing
Is part of
Emergence, Complexity and Computation (2018), Pt. 27, p. 31-24
ISBN source
9783319655567
Edition
1
hdl
1887/69809
doi
10.1007/978-3-319-65558-1_2