{"id":30,"date":"2012-02-23T13:05:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T13:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2012-08-15T11:00:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T11:00:04","slug":"cyrus-rollins","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/cyrus-rollins\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyrus Rollins"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"

'OK tell me what to do' - 1982 - 2004<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cIt was for a brief moment a way of drawing on a computer that will probably never be attempted again.\u201d<\/h1>\n

One of the first examples of displaying images on a computer screen using redefined text character sets. As the hardware of the day was unable to display pictures quickly, the computers\u2019 faster, text only screen mode was used. Instead of conventional text being written to the screen the newly reshaped \u2018alphabet\u2019 was used to create the illusion of the final image. The technique was enhanced by the fact that up to 3 characters could be variously combined. As well as simple rotation a basic arithmetic logic was used to combine the characters. This was by addition, simply overlaying as a logical OR, by a type of subtraction, one character cutting into the next as a logical EXCLUSIVE OR and by selective addition as a logical AND.
\nQuite a few projects were accomplished this way. I got so used to it that eventually I could look at an image and \u2018see\u2019 the redefined characters and their orientation that I needed to assemble it.
\nIt was for a brief moment a way of drawing on a computer that will probably never be attempted again. Artists today don\u2019t know what they are missing!<\/p>\n

The initial dates attributed to the Fantastic Four \u00a0location picture; \u2018The Circus of Crime’ \u00a0and the Spiderman detail; ‘Office window\u2019 are the image creation dates and not the product release dates. The second date in brackets refers to the revisited image\u2019s final update.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"\"

'Office window' - 1982 - 2004<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt was for a brief moment a way of drawing on a computer that will probably never be attempted again.\u201d One of the first examples of displaying images on a computer screen using redefined text character sets. As the hardware…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"1r-sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1066,"href":"https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/1066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}