Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 5: Artist-Programmer Era (1970s)
1975
Computer Graphics by Melvin L. Prueitt
Prueitt’s book showcases the PICTURE computer program that he developed at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. The book consists of visual representations of numbers, particularly representations of surfaces in space, using the PICTURE algorithm.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
Sources
People
Movements
computer art
Filed under
- Ideas
- mathematics
- Technologies
- computer art, computer graphics, PICTURE, scientific visualization
- People
- Melvin L. Prueitt
- Organisations
- Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
- Places
- Los Alamos, United States
Echoes across time
- 1991 · Cruz-Neira, Sandin and DeFanti Begin Developing CAVE
- 1951 · Edmund C. Berkeley Begins Publishing Computers and Automation
- 2000 BCE · Babylonians Begin Visualizing Mathematics
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- Timeline Ch 5—Artist-Programmer Era (1970s) with Joan Truckenbrod, Hans Dehlinger & Anika Meier — listen with transcript on Le Random (14 Jan 2024, 65 min). Chapter 5’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify