Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 5: Artist-Programmer Era (1970s)

1977

Computergraphik by Lothar Limbeck

Publication

Computergraphik by Lothar Limbeck

This master’s thesis, Computergrafik, Ein Lehr- und Lernbuch (“Computer graphics, a text and learning book”), was a survey of computer graphics. It also published in detail SNE (COMP) ART, one of the first art machines based on parameters. The code was significant as SNE ART became a way to enhance generative art’s accessibility. It was used to teach the field (using FORTRAN). Nearly 40 years later in 2013, Dietrich M. Scheringer would bring SNE ART to Processing, based on the original FORTRAN code.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.

Sources

People

Dietrich M. Scheringer, Lothar Limbeck

Movements

computer art

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Ideas
accessibility, education, generative art, tools
Technologies
computer art, computer graphics, Fortran, parametric systems, Processing, SNE ART
People
Dietrich M. Scheringer, Lothar Limbeck
Works
Computergrafik, Ein Lehr- und Lernbuch

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