»The Litely Lit Lamp« by William A. Carpenter | i |
 
creators: William A. Carpenter
title: The Litely Lit Lamp
year: 1969
material:

drawing, b/w, computer-generated

artwork type: drawing
Description

The figure was created by distorting a four-leafed rose with a complex transcendental function. This distorted rose was then made symmetrical by modifying the X coordinates with the sine of another variable, and again with a negative sine while the Y coordinates were modified with the variable itself. The resulting X and Y coordinates were then used to define a Z coordinate. Finally the X and Y coordinates were plotted on the surface described by the X, Y and Z co-ordinates. Programmed in ALGOL on a Burroghs 5500 computer; drawn on a CalComp 570 plotter.
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