Scott Draves is an American digital artist. He is the inventor of
fractal flames and the leader of the
distributed computing
Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems, defined as computer systems whose inter-communicating components are located on different networked computers.
The components of a distributed system commu ...
project
Electric Sheep
Electric Sheep is a volunteer computing project for animating and evolving fractal flames, which are in turn distributed to the networked computers, which display them as a screensaver.
Process
The process is transparent to the casual user, ...
. He also invented patch-based
texture synthesis 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
Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...
, where he was a student of
Andy van Dam before continuing on to earn a PhD in computer science at
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. In 1912, it became the Carnegie Institu ...
.
At CMU he studied under
Andy Witkin,
Dana Scott, and
Peter Lee.
References
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American 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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