BALL STATE UNIVERSITY
Spring 2022 CS 120: Computer Science 1
Eighteenth Semi-annual All-section Art Show
Sponsored by the Department of Computer Science

Held in the AJ Atrium on Friday, April 1, 2022 from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM

The collages shown below were created by students in the CS 120 course, and 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.

"Falling through Realities" by Laura Conrad Senior; Meteorology and Climatology majors Artist's statement: “I wanted to make something creative. I knew I had the skills and I had loads of ideas. Eventually I went with what you can see. Meet Chirre (pronounced like Share), a character I made back in 2020. I decided to focus on them, since I could make them fall through dimensions or different realities. That’s sort of their thing, traveling through the multiverse and adapting to their new surroundings, which I thought would be perfect for a project that required an image to be changed multiple times. Getting the program to run quickly was the most challenging part. The most rewarding part was just seeing it all come together after making and finding each little piece.” Supporting files	"Look at all those chickens" by Connor Counceller Sophomore; Computer Science major Artist's statement: “My original design idea was to use random pictures in addition to the random effects present in the final collage. However, I used the swan picture to test as I wrote. While testing I realized I had a collage of 200 swans, and I could not resist the opportunity to reference the once viral ‘look at all those chickens’ video. (In the video, a little girl says that phrase while looking at a field of ducks.) The most challenging aspects of this program/collage was staying organized because there are more functions and sub-functions to this program than any other Python program I have written; and deciding on what I wanted my collage to look like because I am not very artistically creative. The most rewarding part of creating the collage was towards the end of the process, when I worked out the bugs and got to see my idea work as intended and it look decent.” Supporting files
"Night Sitting" by Luke Fugate Freshman; Computer Science major Artist's statement: “I thought the random aspect of the planets was pretty neat, and I had this picture I took. The most challenging part was bluescreening out the correct color. I didn’t use 255 blue. Watching the program run and produce different pictures every time was rewarding.” Supporting files	"All A Flutter" by Jaigen Glaze Senior; Entrepreneurship and Innovation major, Computer Science, and Computer Information Systems minors Artist's statement: “I chose this design because I liked all of the bright colors. The various colors can bring out different moods. I think that the most challenging part of this project was to copy the images onto the canvas. The most rewarding part of this project was to see the finished collage come to life.” Supporting files
"Multi-Earths" by Andrew Hernandez Junior; Computer Technology major Artist's statement: “I picked the design because I thought about the MultiVerse. The most challenging part of the project was making the four corner pictures the same size. The most rewarding part of the project was the grade given for my project.” Supporting files	"How Are You?" by Beethoven Meginnis Sophomore; Computer Science major Artist's statement: “I could not pick a good starter image to modify, so I decided to create my own in code: a row of pixelated faces. Then, I created a variety of modifier functions with randomness in mind. The most challenging aspect of creating this collage was determining how cautious I should be with random generation. Too much could produce inconsistent results and too little would not create enough variety. The most rewarding part of the collage creation was running my main function over and over to see many different versions of my collage.” Supporting files
"Working Around the Clock" by Rachel Wynalda Junior; Meteorology and Climatology major Artist's statement: “I chose this design because it incorporated a lot of the different modifications we've been learning in class. The most challenging part of the project was copying the modified pictures into one new canvas. The most rewarding part was seeing the final collage finally work!” Supporting files	Thanks for visiting!

"Null" by Ben Keys Sophomore; Computer Science and TCOM (Multimedia) majors Artist's statement: “I wanted to create a more programmatic design. I could have manually coded a college, but I'm happier with how this ended up looking. I needed to find a way to iterate through the pixels diagonally from the top left to the bottom right, which stumped me for a while. I started with the code to college the photos together. The first time I got that to run successfully was satisfying.” Supporting files	"Alices dimensional Bear" by A’ria King Freshman; Computer Science major, Dance minor Artist's statement: “It was originally supposed to be a panda picture but with a couple of random ideas I got creative and began doing something simple. The Alice image didn't look right without the image being chromakeyed in. It looking like a Bear that was a complete accident but it looked good.” Supporting files
"Parallel Galaxies” by Brennon Mattox Freshman; Computer Science and Actuarial Science majors Artist's statement: “I like the way space looks and I thought it would complement my rudimentary abilities. The most challenging part about creating the collage was finding different ways to change the initial image while making it looks good. The end result was the most rewarding and knowing that I don't need software to do it if I feel particularly driven.” Supporting files	"The Ghostly Grays" by Nicholas Newlin Sophomore; Computer Science major Artist's statement: “I chose this design because it was the simplest way to show the different effects I put on the picture. It was also fun to be able to use my own picture that I took with my friend. The most challenging thing about this project was figuring out where to start. I had an idea, but it was hard to plan it all out. The most rewarding part was being able to experiment with the code and see your changes reflected in the picture.” Supporting files
"The Wave of Kanagawa, but with Four Boxes" by Tisiola Patterson Freshman; Computer and Information Technology major, Cybersecurity minor (Data Infrastructure concentration) Artist's statement: “I chose the design of the collage because I thought it would be cool. This was supposed to be a collage about big butterfly descending from the heavens as Ye (afka Kanye) watched in awe, but that has now become my personal life-long project. I struggle with coding in general, so this project was a struggle to begin with. Copying and pasting some of my favorite code was pretty easy though. The most rewarding part of the collage was when the first box got into place. I peaked in terms of happiness. It's a feeling I haven't felt since.” Supporting files	"Sunset" by Kate Swope Sophomore; Physics major Artist's statement: “I originally had an entirely different idea, but I changed the direction I was going about halfway through. Flexibility made this picture what it is. It was difficult to settle on a base picture. I ran this code with many pictures, and I had a hard time deciding which was my favorite. I really enjoyed working with the offset of the pictures, and I found it most fun when I got to line things up the way I wanted them.” Supporting files

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Spring 2022 CS 120 All-section Art Show organized by David Largent with significant support from Jennifer Coy, and Kim Bechdolt.