fetter, william. perceptions of synergy
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P
RCEPTIONS
OF
SYNERGY
William
Fetter
Head
Computer Graphics Labora-
tory
Department of Design
Southern
Illinois University at
Carbondale.
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The
Fauves
were not instantly
acceptable. Even O l
denbe
rg
took
some time getting
used to.
And
the
current
art/techno
l
ogy
communica
tions
explosion
in
computing video
and
ot
h
er
techniques
again
forces
us
to redefine
art
to
encompass
concepts and
techniques not
previously
admitted
to
the
term.
The work of the
current
wave of
innovative
artists/tec
h
nologists
creates a degree of cognitive dis
sonance
by wo
r
king
in
unfamiliar
contexts.
Afte
r
-the-fact
rationales
will emerge,
at times from the
innovators themselves.
Such
writ
ings
have
appeared
in j
ournals
news media
or even
court proceed
ings where
creative
i
nnovations
motivated the
art
i
st to
assume roles
not yet
san
ctioned by his
contem
porary
society.
T
he
r
ate
of
prolife
r-
ation
of new art fo
rms suggests
that today new work
will yield
new
grist
taster than the verbal m is
can
turn
to
explain it.
The new
definitions
a re
urgent
,
however for our true growth.
In
recent conferences on one aspect
of the
communications
explosion
Computer
Graphics
attempts
at
value
judgme
n
ts of
the
works
pr
ior
to a
new context of understand
ing
proved
unproductive. A
short
reflection on the
growing number
of wo
rke rs in
this
new fie ld,
the
variety
of their background
amount variety
and
type of comput
ing
equipment
at
their
disposa
l
and
the
em
bryonic
nature
of concepts
in this field makes
it
too
early
if
not
unnecessarily
difficult
to
deve l
op
valuab
le c r
itical appraisals without
new contexts.
F
or
example my
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Will iam
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Man The
se
plots
of a human
f igure
we re
produc
ed by co
mpu te
r .
he inte
n t o
f
d
evelop
ing
th i
s
c
apabili
ty
i
s to
prov
ide a p
rec ise
anthr
opome
tric
tool for huma
n
fac tors e
ng inee
rs and
others
in the
study
of and
desig
n for m
a
n/mac
hine interac
tion. A
nothe
r
in t
ent is
to
simu
ltaneou
sly crea
te im a
ges w
hich
have
aesthetic merit in their own right. The w ork
was c
onceiv
ed by
Wil l
iam
A
. Fette
r at the
Boeing
C om
pany
and dev
e loped
un
der his
d
irectio
n.
Curren
tly he
is adapt i
ng thes
e aero
space
deve
loped
too
ls to broad
er desig
n purp
oses as
H
ead
of the Com
puter
Grap
hics Lab
oratory
Depa
rtment
of
Desig
n Sou
thern
Il lino
is Univers
ity
at Carb
onda le
.
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