Analysis Of Flowers By Jennifer Steinkamp

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While visiting the hallways of the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, one work of art by Jennifer Steinkamp stood out greatly. One projector and a small computer in a dark room presented a work of art on a white wall: Flowers. The piece of art itself was a computer generated video of flowers that endlessly swayed side to side. However, it was not the projected content that intrigued me, but the medium of the work instead. I glanced at the computer, and my mind was filled with a multitude of questions. Something simple as moving flowers is also very complex. Given my computer savvy nature, I questioned what language the flower program may have been coded in. I wondered what type of math was involved to generate the polygons of the flower,

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