Frog Pond

Basic Information

Title: Frog Pond
Artist(s): William J. Kolomyjec (Dr. Bill)
Date Created: 1976
Unframed Dimensions: 15.25 x 14.25 in.
Medium:
Inventory ID: Kolomyjec-1976-02

Description

signed lower right in ink
titled lower left in plotter print

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 the Frog figure 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. Frog Pond is an original work from around 1975. It is a very simple algorithm. A predetermined number of digitized frog figures are distributed about a center point using a random angle (0 – 359 degrees) and radius (a random polar coordinate). Then, at that location the frog image is rotated at a random angle (0 – 359 degrees). Unique to this piece I used a plotter alphabet I designed, called Kolobet, to title the drawing.”

 

Detail images of the work

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