Plexus and The Snail by Kerry Strand and Larry Jenkins

The Snail by Kerry Strand, and Symplexity by Kerry Strand and Larry Jenkins, were important early computer-generated drawings for their curvilinear forms.

These more organic forms were in contrast to the mostly rectilinear compositions of the time. Grant Taylor explains: “The Snail and other curvilinear figures completed by technologists became precursors to the later 1980s computer art of William Latham and others who abstracted nature’s morphogenetic process and created strange biomorphic forms.”

Image is copyrighted by The Artists and courtesy of The Anne and Michael Spalter Digital Art Collection.