This computer generated image was created using the program Sterling Fractal, which uses a fractal to 'seed' the colouring algorithms and filters.

Computer art is any art in which computers played a role in production or display of the artwork. Download high resolution version (512x1024, 69 KB)Image generated by Sterling Fractal. ... Download high resolution version (512x1024, 69 KB)Image generated by Sterling Fractal. ... Venus de Milo exhibited in the Louvre museum, France. ... A computer is a machine designed for manipulating data according to a list of instructions known as a program. ...

Computer art is by nature evolutionary, it relies on rapid changes in technology and software for the substance of its creative work. With so many traditional disciplines integrating digital technologies, the lines between traditional works of art and new media works created by computers continue to blur. Defining computer art by its end product proves to be quite difficult, the finished work can exist as an image, sound, animation, video, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, Web site, algorithm, performance or gallery installation. The only true definition of computer generated art can be found with the creator, a person who in fact uses the computer as his or her primary tool. Look up Video in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ... DVD is an optical disc storage media format that is used for playback of movies with high video and sound quality and for storing data. ... Flowcharts are often used to represent algorithms. ...

The most recent evolution of computer art is allowing the computers to create the art themselves, through the use of evolutionary computing and Swarm principles. However, many of the pioneers of the genre disagree with the idea of considering this type of output a form of art. Italian artist Aldo Giorgini, one of the trailblazers who fought for the recognition of computer art as a valid art form said in a 1974 interview that "serendipitous or accidental computer art is not to be considered a valid art form," albeit that it "can serve as an exploratory device or as a source of ideas." To further reinforce the point, Giorgini states that "using a 'canned' program is like choosing one work from 100 paintings in a gallery, and then calling it your own." School of juvenile herring - many fish have the opercula wide open for ram feeding and you can see the red gills The term swarm (schooling or swarming) is applied to fish, birds and insects and describes a behavior of an aggregation (school) of animals of similar size and body orientation... Aldo Giorgini (born March 15, 1934 in Voghera, Italy), was a noted artist and a pioneer in computer graphics (and father of music producer Mass Giorgini). ...

See also

• Algorithm art
• Computer art scene
• Computer graphics
• Computer music
• Digital illustration
• Digital painting
• Digital art
• Equation art
• Fractal art
• Generative art

// Definition Technical Algorithmic art, also known as algorithm art, is visual art explicitly generated by an algorithm. ... The phrase computer art scene or artscene for short, refers to a community of individuals and groups, that are both interested and active in the creation of computer-based artwork. ... Computer graphics (CG) is the field of visual computing, where one utilizes computers both to generate visual images synthetically and to integrate or alter visual and spatial information sampled from the real world. ... Computer music is music generated with, or composed with the aid of, computers. ... Computer illustration or digital illustration is the use of digital tools to produce images, under the direct manipulation of the artist, usually through a pointing device such as a tablet or a mouse. ... Digital painting, Fall Sundance (1879 IV) The main difference between digital and traditional painting is the non-linear process. ... Computer-generated image created by Gilles Tran using POV-Ray 3. ... // Definition Description Equation art is the name for an art form producing images in which the colour of each point (or pixel) is defined as a mathematical function or functions of its coordinates. ... Computer-generated fractal image. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

External links

• One Million Hand Made Pixels (an art project by the german artist Andreas Rintzner: buy 1 virtual pixel and get a real painting)
• [http://home.att.net/~winddrift/VisualPoetryViaComputerArt.html

Exploratory poetic computer art dressed upon the mystique of a famous individual's persona]