Concentric Square Function and Concentric Square Random

Basic Information

Title: Concentric Square Function and Concentric Square Random
Artist(s): William J. Kolomyjec (Dr. Bill)
Date Created: 1978
Unframed Dimensions: 15.5 x 29.5 in.
Medium: plotter drawing in ink on paper
Inventory ID: Kolomyjec-1978-01/02

Description

each drawing is signed lower right in ink

hardware: CDC6500 mainframe computer
software: FORTRAN
output machine: offline Calcomp 936 drum plotter

completed at Michigan State University during the artist’s MFA/PhD studies

information about Concentric Square Function is courtesy of the artist’s website:
“This is regular grid tessellation made up of 9 columns x 7 rows of tiles. Each tile is an interpolation between a smaller inner square and the larger outer square that contains it. The number of in-betweens in this variation is fixed and the position of the small, contained square is allowed to vary. It is translated within the larger square both horizontally and vertically by an algorithm based on the sine trigonometric function.”

information about Concentric Square Random is courtesy of the artist’s website:
“This is regular grid tessellation made up of 9 columns x 7 rows of tiles. Each tile is an interpolation between a smaller inner square and the larger outer square that contains it. The number of in-betweens in this variation is random. The position of the small, contained square is allowed to vary (translate) horizontally and vertically by controlled randomness.”