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AARON's rules (Harold Cohen, 1970s)

Air-quality measurements as material

Astrid Sampe, Sten Kallin and the computer textile

AxiDraw (Evil Mad Scientist, 2016)

Beck & Jung (Holger Bäckström and Bo Ljungberg)

The Benson plotter (Paris, 1970–1983)

Bézier curves

Bitcoin's difficulty

Boids (Craig Reynolds, 1986)

Bresenham's line algorithm (1962)

CalComp 565 drum plotter

Catalog (John Whitney, 1961)

Circle packing

COLOR, Mikael Jern's raster program (Lund, 1970s)

Computer Composition with Lines (A. Michael Noll, 1964)

Computer Technique Group (Tokyo, 1966–1969)

Contour lines with marching squares

Conway's Game of Life (1970)

Cubic Limit (Manfred Mohr, 1973–75)

Cybernetic Serendipity (ICA, London, 1968)

Datasaab and Swedish computer art (D2, D21, D22)

Design by Numbers (John Maeda, 1999)

Desmond Paul Henry's drawing machines (1961–1967)

Diffusion-limited aggregation (Witten and Sander, 1981)

Digital Harmony (John Whitney, 1980)

Digitalteatern (Malmö, 1981–1985)

EMS, Elektronmusikstudion (Stockholm, 1964)

Flow fields

Floyd–Steinberg dithering (1976)

Generative Computergrafik (Stuttgart, 1965)

The harmonograph

Herbert W. Franke (1927–2022)

The Hertz ink-jet colour plotter (Lund, 1970s)

The Hilbert curve

Hiroshi Kawano (1925–2012)

Hommage à Paul Klee 13/9/65 Nr. 2 (Frieder Nake, 1965)

HP 7475A plotter (1983)

HP-GL, the language of pen plotters

Hummingbird (Charles Csuri, 1967–68)

Hypotrochoids: the maths behind Spirograph

The IBM 1130 and Swedish computer art

Interruptions (Vera Molnár, 1968–69)

Jan W. Morthenson (1940–2024)

L-systems (Aristid Lindenmayer, 1968)

Lars-Gunnar Bodin (1935–2021)

Line hatching for pen plotters

The linear congruential generator

Lissajous figures and the harmonograph

Méta-Matics (Jean Tinguely, 1959)

Moiré patterns

MusicBox (Knut Wiggen, EMS Stockholm, 1971–75)

Openly licensed photographs as material

Perlin noise (Ken Perlin, 1983)

Plotter path optimisation

Plotter pens, from ballpoints to fineliners

Poisson disc sampling

Processing (Ben Fry and Casey Reas, 2001)

Punched paper tape

The random walk

Reaction–diffusion (Alan Turing, 1952)

The RGB colour cube

Roland DXY plotters

Roman Verostko and the Algorists (1995)

Rörelse i konsten (Moderna Museet, 1961)

Schotter (Georg Nees, 1968)

Senster (Edward Ihnatowicz, 1970)

SHA-256 as a source of chance

Sol LeWitt's instructions as algorithms (Wall Drawing 86)

Studies in Perception I (Knowlton and Harmon, 1966)

Sture Johannesson (1935–2018)

Tektronix 4010 storage tube terminal

Tendencies 4: Computers and Visual Research (Zagreb, 1968–69)

Truchet tiles

TSP art

Voronoi diagrams and Delaunay triangulation

vpype: preparing SVG for a plotter

Weighted Voronoi stippling (Secord, 2002)

Zuse Graphomat Z64 (1961–1964)