Design by Algorithm. An exhibit by Scott Burns

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Burns, Scott. Design by Algorithm. An exhibit by Scott Burns. Parkland College Gallery, Champaign, IL, Nov.-Dec. 1987. Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley, CA, June-Oct. 1988. Old Quarter Gallery, French Quarter, New Orleans, LA, March 1990-March 1991.

As of October 2014, SB is an emeritus professor of general engineering at the U of Illinois, Urbana, who does "computer-based artwork derived from mathematical equations. . . . Each image may be thought of as a collection of 2.8 million very small colored dots," where each dot "represents the solution of a mathematical equation or process" (from one of SB's handouts on his art).[1]