BALL STATE UNIVERSITY
Judging Results of the Spring 2018 CS 120: Computer Science 1
Tenth Semi-annual All-section Art Show
Sponsored by the Department of Computer Science

Held in the AJ Atrium on Friday, March 30, 2018 from 9:30 AM to 2:30 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), administrators, and CS 222: Advanced Programming students 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 (overall)

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"Sheeple, Despite All Else" by Madison Turley Freshman; Computer Science major, Computer Information Technology minor

Artist's statement: "The most challenging aspect of this project for me was figuring out how to do the "reverse chromakey" for both my signature and the sheep’s head while still maintaining my desired look for the collage. I had some difficulty with the technicality of the programming and code as well in terms of figuring out how to write the code so that it produced the result that I wanted it to. The most rewarding part of my collage creation was being able to see the final product and knowing that I had created it without help from normal photo editing tools like Photoshop. It was a proud moment when I realized that I had done it purely with my own code."

 

Best in Show (aesthetic quality)

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"Apples to Apples" by Bridget Doherty Sophomore; Journalism major, Computer Science, and French minors

Artist's statement: "The most challenging aspect about creating this collage was writing the code, so it was hierarchically composed. I wrote the program bottom-up, so I ended up with multiple functions. Therefore, I had to go back and rewrite the functions that could be combined. The most rewarding part about creating the collage is the color. I spent a lot of time setting the apples' colors and making sure they had consistent tone and saturation, and I think the end result shows that."

 

Best in Show (code quality) - Tie!

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"Casual Meeting" by Zachary Betz Sophomore; Chemistry and Physics majors		Artist's statement: "It was challenging to reduce the size of the original cicada image without losing a great deal of detail (it was reduced to 1/4 its original size). Finally using this image for some creative purpose was quite rewarding for me."
"Project 2" by Jamari Brown Freshman; Computer Science major		Artist's statement: "The most challenging was trying to be creative and figure out everything on the spot. Then after a while of thinking it would just come to mind very easily. The easiest part of this project was choosing a picture."

"Warped" by Alexander Aylsworth Freshman; Criminal Justice major, Military Science minor Artist's statement: "I found the structure and making the code intricate the most challenging aspect of the project. Being able to put my knowledge to the test and having to do some difficult problem solving to learn how to achieve the goal was the most rewarding aspect of the project."

"Pay no attention to the fascism behind the curtain" by James Neubauer Junior; Philosophy major, Political Science minor Artist's statement: "The most challenging part of creating the collage was honestly being willing to consider it complete. This project for me fits well the idea of a thing that is "never completed, only abandoned." The most rewarding part was the realization of what I can do with this."

"Now I am Become Death, Destroyer of Worlds" by Alec Burch Freshman; Computer Science major Artist's statement: "I found that writing the program to overlay my signature on the collage to be the most challenging part of this project. After I figured it out, it took some time to tinker with the inputs to get the best-looking signature I could. The most rewarding part of this project was writing all the different programs and seeing most of them work properly the first time I tested them. Every time I tested my program after adding a function I was delighted to see that I more or less got the result I wanted. Though, sometimes I had to change an X-value or Y-value here and there to position everything just right."

"Starman" by Jessica Walsh Freshman; Biochemistry major, Computer Science minor Artist's statement: "Trying to create the right size canvas when I adjusted the photos position and just trying to decide what to create was challenging. Being able to see a quality finished product was rewarding."

Section 1 "Acidic Redundancy" by Keegan Maxwell Freshman; Biochemistry major, Computer Science minor		Artist's statement: "Trying to create the right size canvas when I adjusted the photos position and just trying to decide what to create was challenging. Being able to see a quality finished product was rewarding."
Section 2 "Girl with Pearl" by Sara Bailey Freshman; Physics major, Computer Science minor		Artist's statement: "The most challenging part was getting the grid sorted out and of course picking what colors I wanted to use! I felt the most rewarding part was seeing it all come together in the end after I had written the code piece by piece."
Section 3 "Dr. Pumpkin and Mr. Pied" by Darrell Payne Junior; Computer Science major		Artist's statement: "I found blending my signature into the picture's background challenging. Creating the collage was a fun experience that helped me learn more about programming."

Copyright © 2018 by the collage creators identified with each image.
Spring 2018 CS 120 All-section Art Show organized by David Largent with significant support from Paul Buis, and Kim Bechdolt.