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Word: vitruvian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1968-1968
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...that look like snail shells, plus computer variations on op designs by Jeffrey Steele and Bridget Riley. Ohio State University's Charles Csuri, a painter turned programmer, employs EDP (Electronic Data Processing) to sketch funhouse-mirror distortions of Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of a man in Vitruvian proportions. Japanese Engineer Fujio Niwa has produced a computer portrait of John F. Kennedy that converts a photograph into a series of dashes, all of which converge with sinister impact on the left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Cybernetic Serendipity | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

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