Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 6: Personal Computer Era (1980s)

1984

Divisibility II + III (1984-1986)

Artwork

Manfred Mohr's bottomless Alpha Merics flatbed plotter drawing a large Divisibility II painting directly onto canvas in 1984, with earlier plots of the same algorithm on the table below.
Manfred Mohr's bottomless Alpha Merics flatbed plotter drawing a large Divisibility II painting directly onto canvas in 1984, with earlier plots of the same algorithm on the table below. Manfred Mohr plotting a Divisibility II painting on canvas with his Alpha Merics flatbed plotter, 1984. Courtesy the artist, emohr.com.

A continuation for Manfred Mohr from his Divisibility I (1980), in which he incorporates more complex forms of growth and distortion in his on-going experimentation with the cube.

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

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Manfred Mohr

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computer art

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Divisibility I, Divisibility II, Divisibility III

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