Zoomed out, they reveal a gently shaded and undulating human form – hard code turned soft through creativity. Much like in a pointillist painting, up close the symbols look like random little groups of shading. Widely spaced multiplication and division signs make up the highlights of Hay’s arms as she reclines, while tightly bunched symbols make up her navel and one visible nipple. The transparency was scanned, with the visual information stored as a series of pulses, processed by the computer, and printed out as a drawing made up of symbols. Made by two engineers from Bell Laboratories – Leon Harmon and Ken Knowlton – Computer Nude was made using a transparency of a photograph of choreographer Deborah Hay. Computer Nude (Studies in Perception I) (1967) was one of the earliest ASCII artworks.
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