Chapter 17Scott Kim, Visual Artist
Scott Kim and I played telephone tag for several weeks before we finally made connections, to arrange to talk about the computer as a tool for the visual artist. Like John Chowning, Kim asked me to attend a presentation first before we talked, in this case a lecture he is to give at Stanford to an introductory class in mechanical engineering on the subject of creativity and visual thinking.
Kim’s lecture is to be given in a hall named in memory of Fred Terman. The building is a fitting tribute indeed to a man whose eye for detail searched out the secret techniques of Finnish javelin throwers. The engineering that holds the structure together is exposed for all to see, to such an extent that the elevator is ...
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