AUTOMATIC "DRAWINGS" IN COMPUTER GRAPHICS

Specialty Definition: Automatism and the computer

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The computer, just like the typewriter, can be used to produce automatic writing and automatic poetry. The surrealist practice of automatic drawing, originally performed with pencil or pen and paper, has also been adapted to mouse and monitor.
The surrealist Pierre Petiot has argued (in "Surrealism and the Machine") that the speed the graphical tools of computer periphery permit "allow an almost permanent connection with the roots of automatism". (However, this may be open to criticism on the grounds that mouses, or some individual, makes, or brands of mouses, are not as responsive to the automatic motion of the hand, as are regular drawing implements.)
Computer-controlled brushes have been used to simulate automatism.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Automatism and the computer."

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