Scott Draves

American artist

Scott Draves

Born| 1968 (age 56-57)
Nationality| American
Known for| Software art
Notable work| Flame, Fuse, Bomb, Electric Sheep, Dreams in High Fidelity
Awards| Prix Ars Electronica, Vida 2.0, Vida 4.0, ZKM App Art Award
An image from the Electric Sheep

Scott Draves is an American digital artist. He is the inventor of fractal flames[1] and the leader of the distributed computing project Electric Sheep.[2][3] He also invented patch-based texture synthesis and published the first implementation of this class of algorithms. He is also a video artist[4][5] and accomplished VJ.[6]

In summer 2010, Draves' work was exhibited at Google's New York City office, including his video piece "Generation 243" which was generated by the collaborative influences of 350,000 people and computers worldwide.[7] Stephen Hawking's 2010 book The Grand Design used an image generated by Draves' "flame" algorithm on its cover. Known as "Spot,"[8] Draves currently resides in New York City.

In July 2012 Draves won the ZKM App Art Award Special Prize for Cloud Art for the mobile Android version of Electric Sheep.[9]

## Background

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Draves earned a Bachelor's in mathematics at Brown University, where he was a student of Andy van Dam before continuing on to earn a PhD in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.[10] At CMU he studied under Andy Witkin, Dana Scott, and Peter Lee.

## References

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1. ^ Birch, K. (2007-08-20). "Cogito Interview: Damien Jones, Fractal Artist". Archived from the original on 2007-08-27.
2. ^ Johnson, S. (August 2004). "Sheep in Shining Armor". Discover Magazine.
3. ^ Wilkinson, Alec (2004-06-07). "Incomprehensible". New Yorker Magazine.
4. ^ Bamberger, A. (2007-01-18). "San Francisco Art Galleries - Openings". Retrieved 2008-03-11.
5. ^ "Gallery representing Draves' video art". Archived from the original on 2008-06-06. Retrieved 2008-03-11.
6. ^ "VJ: It's not a disease". Keyboard Magazine. April 2005. Archived from the original on 2008-04-12.
7. ^ "Digital Art @Google Data Poetics Presents Scott Draves' Generation 243". Archived from the original on 2011-09-29. Retrieved 2010-09-14.
8. ^ Windley, P. (2006-05-07). "Art of Networks".
9. ^ "ZKM Press Release" (PDF).
10. ^ "Bibliography of Draves' CMU research papers". Retrieved 2008-03-11.

## External links

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* Official website

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Mathematics and art

Concepts|

* Algorithm
* Catenary
* Fractal
* Golden ratio
* Hyperboloid structure
* Minimal surface
* Paraboloid
* Perspective
* Camera lucida
* Camera obscura
* Plastic ratio
* Projective geometry
* Proportion
* Architecture
* Human
* Symmetry
* Tessellation
* Wallpaper group

Forms|

* Algorithmic art
* Anamorphic art
* Architecture
* Geodesic dome
* Pyramid
* Vastu shastra
* Computer art
* Fiber arts
* 4D art
* Fractal art
* Islamic geometric patterns
* Girih
* Jali
* Muqarnas
* Zellij
* Knotting
* Celtic knot
* Croatian interlace
* Interlace
* Music
* Origami
* Mathematics
* Sculpture
* String art
* String figure
* Tiling

Artworks|

* List of works designed with the golden ratio
* Continuum
* Mathemalchemy
* Mathematica: A World of Numbers... and Beyond
* Octacube
* Pi
* Pi in the Sky

Buildings|

* Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption
* Hagia Sophia
* Kresge Auditorium
* Pantheon
* Parthenon
* Pyramid of Khufu
* Sagrada Família
* Sydney Opera House
* Taj Mahal

Artists|

| Renaissance|

* Paolo Uccello
* Piero della Francesca
* Leonardo da Vinci
* Vitruvian Man
* Albrecht Dürer
* Parmigianino
* Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror

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19th–20th
Century|

* William Blake
* The Ancient of Days
* Newton
* Jean Metzinger
* Danseuse au café
* L'Oiseau bleu
* Giorgio de Chirico
* Man Ray
* M. C. Escher
* Circle Limit III
* Print Gallery
* Relativity
* Reptiles
* Waterfall
* René Magritte
* La condition humaine
* Salvador Dalí
* Crucifixion
* The Swallow's Tail
* Crockett Johnson

Contemporary|

* Max Bill
* Martin and Erik Demaine
* Scott Draves
* Jan Dibbets
* John Ernest
* Helaman Ferguson
* Peter Forakis
* Susan Goldstine
* Bathsheba Grossman
* George W. Hart
* Desmond Paul Henry
* Anthony Hill
* Charles Jencks
* Garden of Cosmic Speculation
* Andy Lomas
* Robert Longhurst
* Jeanette McLeod
* Hamid Naderi Yeganeh
* István Orosz
* Hinke Osinga
* Antoine Pevsner
* Tony Robbin
* Alba Rojo Cama
* Reza Sarhangi
* Oliver Sin
* Hiroshi Sugimoto
* Daina Taimiņa
* Roman Verostko
* Margaret Wertheim

Theorists|

| Ancient|

* Polykleitos
* Canon
* Vitruvius
* De architectura

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Renaissance|

* Filippo Brunelleschi
* Leon Battista Alberti
* De pictura
* De re aedificatoria
* Piero della Francesca
* De prospectiva pingendi
* Luca Pacioli
* De divina proportione
* Leonardo da Vinci
* A Treatise on Painting
* Albrecht Dürer
* Vier Bücher von Menschlicher Proportion
* Sebastiano Serlio
* Regole generali d'architettura
* Andrea Palladio
* I quattro libri dell'architettura

Romantic|

* Samuel Colman
* Nature's Harmonic Unity
* Frederik Macody Lund
* Ad Quadratum
* Jay Hambidge
* The Greek Vase

Modern|

* Owen Jones
* The Grammar of Ornament
* Ernest Hanbury Hankin
* The Drawing of Geometric Patterns in Saracenic Art
* G. H. Hardy
* A Mathematician's Apology
* George David Birkhoff
* Aesthetic Measure
* Douglas Hofstadter
* Gödel, Escher, Bach
* Nikos Salingaros
* The 'Life' of a Carpet

Publications|

* Journal of Mathematics and the Arts
* Lumen Naturae
* Making Mathematics with Needlework
* Rhythm of Structure
* Viewpoints: Mathematical Perspective and Fractal Geometry in Art

Organizations|

* Ars Mathematica
* The Bridges Organization
* European Society for Mathematics and the Arts
* Goudreau Museum of Mathematics in Art and Science
* Institute For Figuring
* Mathemalchemy
* National Museum of Mathematics

Related|

* Droste effect
* Mathematical beauty
* Patterns in nature
* Sacred geometry

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