Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 4: Digital Era (1960s)

1967

Verifying star by Donald K. Robbins

Artwork

Verifying star by Donald K. Robbins

This piece by the pioneer computer artist Robbins celebrates the intricacy of geometric forms and their ability to capture nature’s inner beauty. Robbins describes the piece: “This five-pointed star is a three-pointed star, used to check out the incremental step on an incremental plotter, superimposed upon itself. The design has many straight lines at many differnt angles. It was produced on a large Gerber flatbed plotter.” Robbins would go on to be included at Cybernetic Serendipity the following year.

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

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Donald K. Robbins

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computer art

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geometry, nature
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computer art, cybernetics, Gerber flatbed plotter, plotter, Plotter Art
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Donald K. Robbins
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Verifying star
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Cybernetic Serendipity

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