BALL STATE UNIVERSITY
Judging Results of the Fall 2014 CS 120: Computer Science 1
All-section Art Show
Sponsored by the Department of Computer Science

Held in the AJ Atrium on Friday, October 24, 2014, from 10:00 AM to 1:30 PM

The collages shown below were created by students in the CS 120 course, and judged by a panel of Comnputer Science faculty 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 (aesthetic quality) - Tie

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"Mystery Mosaic" by Andrew Jones Freshman; Computer Science major Artist's statement: "The most challenging aspect of this assignment was deciding on a picture to use, and choosing what effects I should do to it. Having people enjoy what I created was the most rewarding."

"Never Forget" by Ashlee Feltis Senior; Finance major, Foundations of Computer Systems & Interpersonal Relations minors Artist's statement: "Getting the chromakey function to work correctly was the most challenging part. It was hard because the pixels close to my signature and the title are not fully white so it seemed to have a slight white outline around the words. The most rewarding part of this project was seeing it turn out the way I had envisioned it. I put a lot of work into the project and tried many different effects in order to get the final product I wanted."

Best in Section 1 "Happy Plant Cells" by Tom Taylor Sophomore; Economics & Finance majors Artist's statement: "The most challenging part of this assignment was deciding on a photo to start with and the layout. The most rewarding part was the artistic finished product and thinking about the code needed to accomplish the vision."	Best in Section 2 "Château de Chenonceau Maze" by Claire Smith Sophomore; Applied Mathematics major Artist's statement: "The most challenging aspect of this collage was figuring out the scaling factor to fit my original picture onto the canvas. The most rewarding part was seeing it come together as I figured out exactly how I wanted to manipulate my picture."
Best in Section 3 "Alternate Galaxies Far, Far Away" by Josh Schoen Freshman; Computer Science major Artist's statement: "The most challenging thing about this collage was getting the proportions correct between canvas and picture. Programming in where each piece would go was much more simple after the proportions were made correct. The most rewarding part was seeing the finished piece after working on programming in the correct alterations to each image."	Best in Section 4 "Connor at 3" by Morris Franklin Freshman; Computer Science & Musical Theater majors Artist's statement: "The picture in the upper right hand corner is actually replacing sections of the picture with a line drawing of that section. The most difficult thing was to create a code that would create the stripes without making the code enormous. I ended up creating a section of code that could be manipulated slightly to increase or decrease the number of stripes on the picture. Even though this creation was very basic compared to what could have been created with a commercially built program, i created it from scratch. It’s the same feeling you get when you peel the potatoes for your mashed potatoes, instead of using the instant flakes, it just seems to taste better."
Best in Section 5 "Street Graffiti" by Aron Patterson Freshman; Computer Science major Artist's statement: "The most challenging thing about getting the collage to work was getting the blend function to work properly. Seeing the final product after I finally got all the errors out was very rewarding."	Best in Section 6 "Free Falling" by Matt Buckner Freshman; Computer Science major, Business Information Systems minor Artist's statement: "Trying to use the least amount of code while still accomplishing the same tasks was a challenge. The most rewarding part was running the program for the last time and having it work smoothly."

"BMW M3" by Mehrob Davlatov Sophomore; Accounting & Computer Science majors Artist's statement: "The idea of the collage itself was challenging, as was coding the 'invert' function. The final result was quite rewarding, however."

"Arthur’s Seat Revised" by Devin Monday Freshmen; Computer Science major Artist's statement: "The most challenging aspect of this collage was getting each edited version of the picture to border one another without overlapping or having space between them and getting the quadrants on the rotated picture to start in the correct positions as well. The most rewarding part of the collage was seeing the finished product being the same as what I originally envisioned prior to starting the project."

"Skull Flowers" by Joshua Dobbs Junior; Computer Science major Artist's statement: "The most challenging part of this project was getting the correct positioning for each of the images. The most rewarding part was seeing the finished product and knowing that I understood the material."

"Sparky's Swords" by Kevin McMinn Freshman; Computer Science major, Physics minor Artist's statement: "The most difficult part of this collage was creating the top right picture. Out of all the code required for this picture, I am least familiar with the line-drawing code required to do this. The most rewarding part of this project was seeing the end result. It is a great feeling when all that code finally becomes a cool picture."

Copyright © 2014 by the collage creators identified above each image.
Fall 2014 CS 120 All-section Art Show organized by David Largent with significant support from Paul Buis, Kim Bechdolt, Vinayak Tanksale, and Jeff Zhang.