BALL STATE UNIVERSITY
Judging Results of the Spring 2026 CS 120: Computer Science 1
Twenty-sixth Semi-annual All-section Art Show
Sponsored by the Department of Computer Science
Held in the AJ Atrium on Wednesday, April 15, 2026 from 9:15 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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"Red Clover Madness"
by Kelsey Wolfert
Senior; Japanese major
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Artist's statement: "I wanted to use an image of red clover flowers for this collage because I feel like when most people
hear the word "clover" they immediately think of the leaves. But there are clover flowers as well! I just feel like they're
very underrated and deserve more love. The most challenging part was reigning in my own ambitions! I had so many ideas
initially, like the modified parts of the image being in a more circular pinwheel shape, but no idea how to implement them.
In the end I had to be satisfied with writing code at the level I am at now. I think the most rewarding part was just seeing
the final product and thinking 'I wrote the code for this! At the beginning of this semester I didn't even know what a programming
language was, and now look how far I've come!"
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Best in Show (aesthetic quality)
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"Monumental Shifts"
by Brian Hency
Senior; Data Analytics major
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Artist's statement: "The collage core design is a 3/4 ratio, from full image to the smallest images. The diamond
designs are two pyramids of the different images combined. I captured the images from the Skyline Club in One America
Tower in Indianapolis overlooking Monument Circle and the Salesforce Tower. Oddly, my biggest challenge was overcoming
the desire of phone images to want to lay on their sides and not cooperate. I had to create a function specifically to
flip the images into the orientation I needed before I could even begin building the collage. I really enjoyed creating
the function for the diamond designs. From our work in class, it seemed possible, although we had not built something
exactly like it, and my algorithms to build it worked well. I'm very happy with how they turned out in the final product."
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Best in Show (code quality)
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"Where the Sky Felt Like the Beginning of Us"
by Sarah Fieldhouse
Freshman; Computer Science major, Spanish minor
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Artist's statement: "I chose this design because I wanted it to be important to me personally.
The beach in the photos (called Kemil Beach) is very special to my fiancé and me. It's the beach
where we got engaged and, a few months later, where we saw the northern lights together. We are
planning on getting married on that very same beach next year! Laying out the images and spacing
them properly was the most difficult part of this project...it was a LOT of phone-calculator math,
to say the least! The most rewarding part of the collage creation was being able to show the final
result to my fiancé."
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Honorable Mention (aesthetic quality)
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"Who decides war?" by David York
Freshman; Computer Information Technology major
Artist's statement: "statement: "I chose the design of the collage because I wanted to represent the dissonance between the
inherent human nature to destroy and the beauty of nature itself. This collage represents the predicament soldiers go through,
standing between peace and violence. I want others to understand that war is not just an event, but a choice influenced by
individuals, and that behind every conflict is a human being capable of both destruction and peace. The most challenging part
was getting the image modifications and layout to work together visually while also meeting the coding requirements. The most
rewarding part was seeing the final collage come together and clearly show the contrast between war and peace from the same image."
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"Flowery Falls" by Olivia Britton
Sophomore; Computer Science major
Artist's statement: "I was inspired by an example picture that showed images surrounding a larger image and
decided to use the passion flower picture and water falls picture. It was a lot more work than expected.
Coming up with ideas to change the images, finishing and turning it in were rewarding."
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Honorable Mention (code quality)
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"Moonwalk" by Rayan Baker Boudissa
Junior; General Studies major, Applied Physics minor
Artist's statement: "I love reading comics, which is an art form where sequence is incredibly important. I wanted this
collage to have something for the viewer to follow, and I think that adds depth to it in more ways than one. Most of the
trouble I had with this project came from all the modifications I wanted to make to the images I copied during the execution
of the functions that copy them. I liked being able to express myself within the structure of programming, and I'm glad I
got to show off my understanding of what we've learned so far."
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Best in Section (aesthetic quality)
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Section 1
"Springtime"
by Flannery Olds
Freshman; Fashion Industry Studies, and Logistics and Supply Chain Management majors
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Artist's statement: "I chose this design because I was inspired by pop art. I wanted bright colors and blocky
shapes to be the focus. I wanted others to think about the vibrancy of nature, too. I found it most challenging
to position the various pictures exactly as I wanted them. The most rewarding part was seeing the final product
and feeling happy with the result."
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Section 2
"Billy Bear"
by Alexandra Harris
Freshman; Computer Science major
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Artist's statement: "I just really, really love my cat. He is so handsome. It was challenging to decide what
order I wanted to put the altered images in. Seeing six lovely images of Billy's beautiful face was rewarding."
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CS Department:
Largent:
Copyright © 2026 by the collage creators identified with each image.
Spring 2026 CS 120 All-section Art Show organized by
David Largent
with significant support from Jennifer Coy, and Kim Bechdolt.