1991
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Neighbourhood Count is a 1991 by Paul Brown, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
The 1991 color laser print *Neighbourhood Count* by Paul Brown presents a 17×17 grid of smaller 3×3 matrices on a light-blue background, each containing eight surrounding cells and a central cell. The work visualizes the 256 possible states of a two-dimensional cellular automaton, where each cell’s state depends on its eight neighbors, and the indices of the larger grid correspond directly to these neighborhood configurations. Brown’s program, executed on a Silicon Graphics Iris workstation and printed on a Canon D500, reflects his long-standing engagement with generative art and…
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Paul Eugene Brown was an American football coach and executive in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC), the National Football League (NFL), and the American Football League (AFL).
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