Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 4: Digital Era (1960s)
1964
US Army’s BRL Wins Computer Art Content Top Prize for Second Straight Year
The United States Army Ballistic Research Laboratories won the Computers and Automation “Computer Art Contest” first prize for the second straight year with Trajectories of a Ricocheting Projectile.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
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computer art
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- Technologies
- computer art
- Works
- Trajectories of a Ricocheting Projectile
- Organisations
- Computer Art Contest, Computers and Automation, United States Army, United States Army Ballistic Research Laboratories, US Army Ballistic Research Laboratories
- Places
- United States
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