BALL STATE UNIVERSITY
Judging Results of the 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 (Eastern)
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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"Night Sitting"
by Luke Fugate
Freshman; Computer Science major
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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.”
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Best in Show (aesthetic quality)
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"Falling through Realities"
by Laura Conrad
Senior; Meteorology and Climatology majors
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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.”
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Best in Show (code quality)
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"Null"
by Ben Keys
Sophomore; Computer Science and TCOM (Multimedia) majors
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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.”
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Honorable Mention (aesthetic quality)
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"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.”
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"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.”
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Honorable Mention (code quality)
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"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.”
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Best in Section (aesthetic quality)
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Section 1
"Working Around the Clock"
by Rachel Wynalda
Junior; Meteorology and Climatology major
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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!”
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Section 2
"The Ghostly Grays"
by Nicholas Newlin
Sophomore; Computer Science major
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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.”
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CS Department:
Largent:
Copyright © 2022 by the collage creators identified with each image.
Spring 2022 CS 120 All-section Art Show organized by
David Largent
with significant support from Jennifer Coy, and Kim Bechdolt.