Schotter — Take IV

This piece is inspired by the work Schotter (Gravel) by Georg Nees (1968). Georg Nees is considered one of the founders of computer art and graphics. Nees studied mathematics and physics at the universities of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Stuttgart. He subsequently worked for Siemens as a software engineer, and was instrumental in their purchasing a ‘Zuse Graphomat’, a drawing machine operated by computer-generated punched tape. The machine was capable of creating geometric patterns and, although the programming language that Nees used (ALGOL) was designed specifically for scientific computers, Nees used it to create aesthetic images such as this one. Nees was interested in the relationship betw...View all