BALL STATE UNIVERSITY
Judging Results of the Fall 2015 CS 120: Computer Science 1
All-section Art Show
Sponsored by the Department of Computer Science

Held in the AJ Atrium on Friday, November 6, 2015 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM

The collages shown below were created by students in the CS 120 course, and judged by a panel of faculty (CS and non-CS) to be the best in the show. Prior to the event, they were judged by their peers to be the best in each section of the course. Although these could have been created using a PhotoShop-like program, these students have written the code themselves to create these collages programmatically by manipulating individual pixels.

This page displays the entries from this semester. You may view entries from all other semesters. All student work included in this and other shows, as well as many other CS 120 students' work is provided in an online digital media repository maintained by the BSU University Libraries.

 

Best in Show (aesthetic quality)

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Note: There was a three-way tie.

"Unplanned Pixel Placement" by Michael Adair Freshman; Computer Science major		Artist's statement: "The most challenging part of my collage was deciding what I wanted to do along with the creation of the rainbow gradient function. The most rewarding part of my collage creation was seeing the final product and finally feeling content with the outcome. I also felt proud of the fact that no two generated collages created by my program will be the same."
"Red, White, and Blue-Mark" by Jimmy Schraeder Sophomore; Computer Science major		Artist's statement: "The most challenging part was making the stripes in my collage. I wanted to make the majority of the stripes different from each other, instead of just making all the stripes in the same style. The most rewarding part was seeing my collage come together to make up the great symbol of America."
"Old Fashioned Vegetable" by Mitchell Showalter Freshman; Computer Science major		Artist's statement: "The most challenging piece of the collage was organizing it all and changing each picture separately. The most rewarding part of this project was getting to see it displayed in the art show, it means a lot to me."

 

Best in Show (code quality)

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"Ring Reaper" by Daniel Isenberg Freshman; Physics major

Artist's statement: "For me, the most difficult aspect of this project was working within the size constraints. Pictures like the one I chose to modify are far more impressive from a 'shock and awe' stand point when in high resolution, and having a very limited picture size to work with presented some challenges with trying to create the sort of visual effect I wanted. 'What was the most rewarding?' It seems like this question just begs to be answered with 'when I got it to work all the way' or something like that, and that moment is undeniably rewarding. That being said, by the time it is completely finished, you are probably getting to the point where you expect it to work the next time you run the program. The really rewarding part is getting the helper functions to work individually, because that is where most of the work is being put in, and where you get most of the problems."

"Coding Fish" by Vanessa Covarrubias Freshman; Computer Science major, and Linguistics minor Artist's statement: "I think the most challenging aspect of the project was figuring out how to position the modify pictures in my canvas. I realized that the easiest solution was to look for the specific pixels to place my picture in. I had a lot of fun modifying my pictures once I figured out how to position them in the canvas. I found the end product to be the most rewarding part of the collage creation."

"Snake Arrangement" by Madeline Van Ness Freshman; Computer Science and Honors College majors Artist's statement: "The most challenging part of this project was getting my scaling function to work properly. The most rewarding part of this project was when I ran my final code and it worked properly -- no more errors or yellow highlights!"

Section 1 "Watercolor" by Stefanie Clark Junior; Creative Writing major, and Japanese and Computer Science minors		Artist's statement: "I found spacing of the different images to be challenging. Having the opportunity to represent a friend's art creatively is rewarding."
Section 1 "Thinking around the corner" by Matthias Raess PhD student; Applied Linguistics		Artist's statement: "The most challenging thing about the collage was the picture selection, other than that it was pretty straightforward. The most rewarding part of the collage was learning the underlying code and overarching coding schemes."
Section 2 "Invasion" by Matthew McDonough Freshman; Computer Science major		Artist's statement: "The most challenging aspect was getting the randomness to look good within the picture. The most rewarding part was seeing what my program could do with the randomness aspect, it was really cool seeing an awesome output without a ton of hardcoded values."
Section 3 "Nature In The City" by Carmen Grande Pardo Freshman; Physics major		Artist's statement: "Adding my signature on the correct corner took me some time. Also, changing the slices to get to like the combination of their colors was challenging. Seeing that we can do whatever we want with pictures and that we can be as creative as we want with them with just a computer is rewarding."
Section 4 "Parrot Pete" by Gerard Shadiow Sophomore; Pre-Engineering major		Artist's statement: "The hardest part of the project was getting the code to work efficiently. At first JES, the program used to communicate code to the computer ran for about 10+ minutes trying to come up with the canvas. After playing around with the code I got it to work in about 15 seconds or so. The most gratifying part of creating the collage is being voted by my peers to be in the Section Art Show to show my work to everyone that wants to see it. The most rewarding part had to be seeing my code work to produce the canvas the first time."

Copyright © 2015 by the collage creators identified with each image.
Fall 2015 CS 120 All-section Art Show organized by David Largent with significant support from Paul Buis, Kim Bechdolt, and Vinayak Tanksale.