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Digital Mona Lisa-Computer Art Graphic Masterpiece

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-H. Philip Peterson of Control Data Corporation (CDC) utilized a CDC 3200 computer and a "flying-spot" scanner to create a digital transposition/representation of the famous Mona Lisa in 1964. The production process took 14 hours to complete the image which contained 100,000 pixels that were plotted using numerals, sometimes overprinted, to approximate the required density.

the digital transposition process he developed was for advertising. He also created one of Bart Starr (quarterback for the Green Bay Packers), Norbert Weiner (MIT professor, coined the term "cybernetics") and William Charles Norris (Founder of Control Data Corporation).

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Andrew Patros
Elmira New York
United States 14904
(607) 733-9596

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