Recreating Retro Computer Art with JS! | JS Conf 2019

Before personal computing became a thing, there was a handful of
programmers and artists saw computers as a tool beyond their
intended purpose: to create art. In this talk, we will explore the
early history of computer art, from ghostly oscilloscope paints to
pre-ASCII text art. We’ll discuss how simple techniques with
limited technology back then could yield compelling pieces. We’ll
see how the history of computer displays and printers have evolved
in the 1950s to 1980s. While quite a bit of retro art survives
today, most of them do not come preserved with their algorithms. In
this talk, I’ll also demo some attempts to recreate retro art
pieces using p5.js, a JavaScript graphics library as well as talk
through some of the techniques of creating generative computer art.