Yoshiyuki Abe
-exhibition file-
Xerox PARC Algorithmic Art Show
Palo Alto, USA
LS-40X(1993)
LS-51(1993)
Iris inkjet prints 25x25cm
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| LS-40x | LS-51(details) |
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The show includes algorithmic mathematics less famous than fractals. A random Truchet tiling (squares with quarter-circles drawn on them) forms a lake in Anna Campbell Bliss's print. Compare this lake to the random, periodic fluid flows in Daniel Asimov's pictures. Functions remaindered by a modulus appear in Misako Akimoto's vases and Yoshiyuki Abe's LS-51.
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Typically a computer artist cedes less(or at least later) control to automatic processes than does an algorithmic artist. The border is blurry, however, as computer artists invent algorithms - for example, Achim Stosser's algorithm that renders a scene as an engraving - and art such as Yoshiyuki Abe's that seems to embody a novel algorithm is actually made by clever variations on standard ray tracing.
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- Marshall Bern