Creature Tunnel

Basic Information

Title: Creature Tunnel
Artist(s): William J. Kolomyjec (Dr. Bill)
Date Created: 1981
Unframed Dimensions: 22.25 x 36.75 in.
Medium:
Inventory ID: Kolomyjec-1981-03

Description

signed, titled, and dated 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 this work is courtesy of the artist’s website:
“This drawing uses all the figures from a set of hand-digitized representational images. The full set consists of: Goose, Frog, Fat Cat and Elephant. I often used these interchangeable figures in my early works. I used to be an Engineering graphics professor. Back in the day, before CAD, we were developing algorithms for perspective drawing. In this piece I wrote an algorithm to randomly distribute my digital menagerie on the surface of a cylinder. Then I used the computer to draw the data using perspective drawing equations we had developed. The result is a one-point perspective as if looking through the length of the cylinder.”

 

Detail images of the work

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