BALL STATE UNIVERSITY
Judging Results of the Spring 2017 CS 120: Computer Science 1
Eighth Semi-annual All-section Art Show
Sponsored by the Department of Computer Science

Held in the AJ Atrium on Friday, March 31, 2017 from 10:00 AM to 1:30 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), and administrators 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 an image-editing 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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"Couleur Fleur" by Ellie Phan Sophomore; Visual Communication major, Computer Science minor

Artist's statement: "The most challenging thing about creating the collage was putting my signature onto my collage because I could not get it onto my canvas without the white background. The most rewarding part of the collage was when I saw my final product. I felt proud of my final product because I created it without a bunch of external help. Since I am a beginner with zero knowledge in Computer Science, I was not very confident in creating coding programs, which is why I always ask for help from my peers. However, in this creation project, I completed it without a ton of help and that made me happy when I used all my skills that I learned on image manipulations to create a cool collage. Therefore, the most rewarding part of the collage creation was the feeling of finally creating a code program without help and understanding coding better."

 

Best in Show (code quality)

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"National Weather Map" by Lauren Slaven Senior; Meteorology major, Computer Science minor

Artist's statement: "The most challenging part of creating my collage was figuring out how to write the code so that I could change each individual tile in the mosaic to a different color. Since some of the tiles needed to be part one color and part another color, figuring out a way to make that happen while still keeping the same number and layout of tiles was also challenging. The most rewarding part of creating my collage was actually getting to see the final product completed. It was really cool to have this idea in my head and then get to see it come to fruition through code that I wrote."

"The Odyssey of Life" by Jared Clarke Freshman; Computer Science major Artist's statement: "The hardest part creating the collage was the signature. The most rewarding part was the picture manipulation."

"SLVRFSH in SPAAAAACE" by Robbie Cartwright Freshman; Integrated Studies in VR game development Artist's statement: "The most challenging part of creating this collage, for me personally, was getting all the items properly aligned on the canvas. My images were not the exact right size in the beginning, so I had to slightly move them around to get them to fit, but once they did, the rest was a breeze. The most rewarding part of this collage's creation is being able to show it off to so many people! I'm an artist myself but I'm not in the art school because I love art and computers (especially VR) so I don't get to show off my art that often. Getting a chance to show people what I do behind the scenes is a real pleasure, so thank you all!"

Section 1 "Stage Fright" by Matthew Gorham Junior; Actuarial Science and French majors		Artist's statement: "My collage is heavily dependent on image placement so that the different colored sections overlap correctly. Creating formulas for these locations on the original image was probably the most difficult part of the process. I felt that the most rewarding part of the process was simply seeing my work as I had originally envisioned it."
Section 500 "A Dog and a Bee" by Jacob Eckert Senior; Actuarial Science major, Mathematics minor		Artist's statement: "The hardest part of the project was equally distributing the outside pictures around the collage and then finding the middle for the main picture. The most rewarding part of the project is seeing the different outcomes that can occur with the random colors in the collage."
Section 501 (tie) "Lambda" by Conner Host Sophomore; Computer Technology Major, Business Administration Minor		Artist's statement: "The most challenging aspect of the project was creating the code that would create the outcome that I wanted with the picture. The most rewarding part of this project was loading up the code and watching it run successfully."
Section 501 (tie) "Can't stop watching the time" by Damon Perkins Senior; Computer Information Systems major		Artist's statement: "The most challenging part was including the signature on the collage. The most rewarding part was seeing the whole collage come together after putting the time in."

Copyright © 2017 by the collage creators identified with each image.
Spring 2017 CS 120 All-section Art Show organized by David Largent with significant support from Paul Buis, Kim Bechdolt, and Jeff Zhang.