Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 3: Analog Era (1950s)

1958

A. P. Rich Writes Program for the Design of Wave Patterns for Textiles

Invention

The cover of the 1985 Springer edition of Herbert W. Franke's Computer Graphics – Computer Art, page 97 of which is the sole published record of A. P. Rich's 1958 textile wave-pattern program.
The cover of the 1985 Springer edition of Herbert W. Franke's Computer Graphics – Computer Art, page 97 of which is the sole published record of A. P. Rich's 1958 textile wave-pattern program. Herbert W. Franke, Computer Graphics – Computer Art, second revised and enlarged edition, Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York/Tokyo, 1985. Cover scan via the Internet Archive.

Rich, of the Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, wrote one of the earliest examples of using a computer program for graphic design, according to Herbert W. Franke. This was of wave patterns for textiles.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.

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People

A. P. Rich, Herbert W. Franke

Movements

computer art

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Ideas
graphic design, pattern, textiles
Technologies
computer art
People
A. P. Rich, Herbert W. Franke
Organisations
Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University

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