Scott Draves is the inventor of
Fractal Flames and the leader of the
distributed computing
A distributed system is a system whose components are located on different networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages to one another from any system. Distributed computing is a field of computer sci ...
project
Electric Sheep. He also invented patch-based
texture synthesis
Texture synthesis is the process of algorithmically constructing a large digital image from a small digital sample image by taking advantage of its structural content. It is an object of research in computer graphics and is used in many fields, amo ...
and published the first implementation of this class of algorithms. He is also a
video artist and accomplished
VJ.
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.
Stephen Hawking's 2010 book
The Grand Design used an image generated by Draves' "flame" algorithm on its cover. Known as "Spot," Draves currently resides in
New York City
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.
In July 2012 Draves won the
ZKM App Art Award Special Prize for Cloud Art for the mobile Android version of Electric Sheep.
Background
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.
At CMU he studied under
Andy Witkin,
Dana Scott
Dana Stewart Scott (born October 11, 1932) is an American logician who is the emeritus Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy, and Mathematical Logic at Carnegie Mellon University; he is now retired and lives in Berkeley, Ca ...
, and
Peter Lee.
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Computer programmers
American digital artists
Fractal artists
Psychedelic artists
American video artists
Brown University alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Living people
1968 births
Mathematical artists
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