DeFanti, Thomas A.
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Computer Graphics as a Way of Life Bibliography
"Civilization and its requisite overhead have neatly brought us away from real-time interactions." "Computer graphics, especially in a media production environment, must be highly people-oriented. This paper attempts to develop the two essential components for a people-oriented computer system - hab…
Exhibition of Computer Graphics in Collaboration with the SIGGRAPH '83 Exhibition of Computer Art Bibliography
Exhibition of Computer Graphics in Collaboration with the SIGGRAPH '83 Exhibition of Computer Art. Catalog begins with a Foreword by the 1983 Organizers, a Message from Thomas A. Defanti, Chair, ACM/SIGGRAPH. Thereafter, the book is written in Japanese. Vividly colorful computer generated art fills …
Final Report to the National Endowment of the Arts Tools
Final Project Report to the National Endowment of the Arts concerning control structures for digital computers used in art-making; the report contrasts analog and digital approaches and proposes rich non-linguistic inputs and the simulation of analog systems within digital computing. The project team recorded roughly eight years of preliminary use of slide potentiometers, dials, joysticks and data tablets, diagnosed limited human-computer degrees of freedom, and set goals to create dynamic, flexible, user-programmable multidimensional controls with constructive feedback that are easy to construct, documentable for moderate electronic skills and affordable. The work produced four device categories: pressure-sensitive keyboards, sensing clothing, force-feedback dials and time-based computer variables.
Final Report to the National Endowment of the Arts: Analog Computers Bibliography
"Analog computers have been much more successful as tools for the creative artist than digital computers. Analog computers are quite successfully used in music and more recently, in video art. Most of the current work in digital computer art suffers from a real lack of fluidity in control, which is …