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.
Section 1
"Windows to a Parallel Universe"
by Trevan Brown
Junior; Computer Technology major, Business Admin minor
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Artist's statement: "I chose the design because I liked the idea of using one continuous image that was split into even sections
with various effects. When I used the negative grayscale function on the 2nd and 4th sections, it reminded me of a pair of windows.
The thing I found most challenging about the creation of the collage was figuring out how to arrange the function calls in the main
function to get a visually pleasing result. The most rewarding part of the collage creation was using all of the skills that I learned
in the first half of the semester to create something that looked pretty cool."
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Section 2
"Nature's Light Show"
by William Gibson
Sophomore; Computer Science major, Music Recording minor
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Artist's statement: "I chose this design with the plasma because of its symmetry. I want people to know that each
image represents a different aspect of lightning. The most challenging part of creating this collage was actually
adding my signature. There was a misunderstanding about what the code does, but I figured it out and learned some
new things in the process. The most rewarding part of creating this collage was making it all work. Once I got though
the complication of writing the code, it felt great to see it work."
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Section 3
"Emergency Meeting"
by Ian Blackmer
Freshman; Computer Science major
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Artist's statement: "I chose to make this design because I thought it would be fun to mess around with changing colors
and trying to make each 'clone' of the original image look like a separate image. The most challenging part was including
the code I wanted to use in a different context. Most of the code on its own would work fine, but when mixed with the rest
of the code, it started having some problems. The most rewarding part of creating this collage is when something that I had
spent hours working on finally worked the way I wanted it to. That feeling is one of the best."
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Section 4
"Islands"
by Brandon Kaster
Sophomore; Apparel Design major
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Artist's statement: "I chose this design because I wanted to create something that felt like a cohesive picture rather than
a collage. I decided to combine two pictures of mine before realizing I could mirror the mountains for a cool 'floating island'
effect, so I ran with that and only applied the stars to one half. The most difficult part of this project was figuring out how
to make the picture-in-picture affect. I had to find a way to copy the finished mirrored canvas, apply an effect to it, and then
crop and paste that new image back to the original canvas. The most satisfying part was watching everything come together and
getting the first picture-in-picture to finally work correctly."
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Section 5
"Frog Baby Episodes"
by Edwin Cardona
Sophomore; Computer Science major, Technical Theatre minor
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Artist's statement: "I chose this design of the collage because I wanted to do something related to something on campus. I think that the
fountain where frog baby is located is pretty and makes for a great picture. I think the most challenging part was having the patience to
wait for the code to run every time. I had one code messed up that made the code take over 10 minutes (literally) to run. It was nowhere
near as bad once that code was fixed, but the waiting was the hardest part of the collage. The most rewarding part about this project was
not only seeing my final creation, but to see the creations of my classmates that I haven’t gotten to know. Some projects gave me some
insight to who the people who created them were. That really was the most rewarding part."
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Section 6
"2020: A Space Odyssey"
by Blake Shanayda
Junior; Geography (GIScience) major, Computer Science minor
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Artist's statement: "I chose this design as I like Synth-wave/Retrofuturism designs and I felt that I could manipulate this image to
create a unique 'far-out' sort of look. Connecting every piece of the puzzle and getting each image to line up with each other and
create a unified look was difficult. I struggled a lot first with organizing my code so that it was easy to read and understand.
Seeing the code I wrote come together to make an image manipulated the way I wanted it to was the most rewarding and relieving part
of the whole project. Having that sense of accomplishment after fixing any errors or correcting any incorrectly defined functions is great!"
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