BALL STATE UNIVERSITY
Judging Results of the Fall 2023 CS 120: Computer Science 1
Twenty-first Semi-annual All-section Art Show
Sponsored by the Department of Computer Science

Held in the AJ Atrium on Wednesday, November 8, 2023 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)

Roll your mouse over the collage for a larger image.

"Vivid Sentinel"
by C.J. Fulciniti
Freshman; Computer Science major
 fulciniticj.jpg Artist's statement: "The reason I chose the design I did was to create a collage that is very colorful, despite my code actually removing color from the original picture. The hardest part about creating the collage was creating a function to write my signature on it. The most rewarding part was the fact that I created it mostly by myself. Being able to create something that looks so cool from just a starting image and computer code is not something I was sure I was capable of, but here we are!"
 

Best in Show (aesthetic quality)

Roll your mouse over the collage for a larger image.

"Multidimensional"
by Ishan Witanachchi​
Freshman; Computer Science major
 IshanWitanachchi​.png Artist's statement: "I wanted to explore the idea of different realities that a person could explore through. I hope people feel a sense of comfort when looking at it. Figuring out how to use the concepts we learned in CS 120 within the project bounds was tricky. Clicking the load program button and seeing everything appear is the most gratifying thing; you feel like your effort is worth it."
 

Best in Show (code quality)

Roll your mouse over the collage for a larger image.

"Controlled Chaos"
by Keegan Fontaine
Freshman; Computer Science major
 KeeganFontaine.jpg Artist's statement: "The idea was to create some kind of cool grid effect with a single image. I believe I achieved that, but it took a lot of time to figure out exactly what I wanted to do, and how to actually do it. The most challenging part about creating the collage was trying to find a dynamic way to apply the image effects. I wanted to make it easy to change out specific image effects and arguments -- almost treating them as if they are image filters in some kind of design software. The most rewarding part of creating my collage was the process about learning more about the Python programming language, specifically with some of Python's OOP concepts.​"
 

Honorable Mention (aesthetic quality)

Roll your mouse over a collage for a larger image.

"Butterflies" by Alex Bratek
Freshmen; Computer Science and Music Media Production majors
AlexBratek.jpgv

Artist's statement: "A lot of my design choices for this collage were based on a love for symmetry and reflections. The way it is arranged pairs images that are opposite of each other and often modifies them in similar but opposing ways.​ The most challenging part of the collage was figuring out how to translate my conceptual ideas into code, especially when I had to troubleshoot errors from code that I thought was logically sound but was in fact missing some key logical component.​ The most rewarding part of the collage creation was when it finally came together properly towards the end. I kept running into issues with the code returning errors or not doing what I wanted it to, but when I finally ran the code and saw the complete collage as I wanted it to look, I was really excited and happy with the result.​"

"... Effect" by Adrian Perry
Freshman; Computer Science major
perrymadagan.jpg

Artist's statement: "I have a spiritual and personal connection with butterflies, as well as a sort of gentle feeling surrounding the color purple, and wanted to bring those both together to create something soft and beautiful. I think the most challenging part of creating the collage was fixing all the little issues with how I was trying to crop the pictures. The most rewarding part of making it was seeing people's reactions to the finished product, and the sense of pride I can feel because of it."

 

Honorable Mention (code quality)

Roll your mouse over a collage for a larger image.

"Tic-Tac-Cat" by Ethan Andreshak
Freshman; Applied Cybersecurity major
andreshakethan.jpg

Artist's statement: "I was just playing a game and I had an idea to do a tic-tac-toe type of design with different picture effects, honestly it just sounded like a good idea to me. Those two cats are my cats. Oreo and Peaches, you should be able to tell which is which. I found figuring out how to make the Xs and Os the most challenging, as we had never done anything like that in class before. The most rewarding part of the entire collage was seeing how vivid and striking my two cats were. I honestly did not expect the collage to look as bright as it did."

"biggestben.jpg" by Charles Dager
Freshman; Computer Science major
dagercharles.jpg

Artist's statement: "I chose this design because I thought it would look cool. The most challenging part was adjusting the blur function so that it was blurry enough to tell the difference between the original. The most rewarding part was seeing the final product."

 

Best in Section (aesthetic quality)

Roll your mouse over a collage for a larger image.

Section 2

"Ideas are made of ideas"
by Lleyton Parsons
Freshman; Computer Science major
 parsonslleyton.jpg Artist's statement: "The thought process of even coming up with ideas for things like this can be difficult, then I had a realization: Big ideas are all composed of smaller ones. The most challenging part was just coming up with the idea, and the troubleshooting bits. The satisfaction of watching it all come together completed was the reward."

Section 3

"City Scape"
by Garrett Grim
Sophomore; Computer Science major
 GarrettGrim.jpg
Artist's statement: "I chose my collage to be designed how it was because I liked the image of the city and I also liked how I saw examples of people changing the colors of their images. The most challenging part was figuring out how to scale the images up or down. The most rewarding part was clicking the button and my code actually working and running how I wanted it to."

CS Department:      Largent:
Copyright © 2023 by the collage creators identified with each image.
Fall 2023 CS 120 All-section Art Show organized by David Largent with significant support from Jennifer Coy, Kim Bechdolt, and Ladelle Augustine Diekhoff.