MEMBERS AT WORK Painting in Air An art like painting is itself a language a language of form and color in which complex intuitions are expressed. The necessity for the plastic symbols of the art of painting is to some extent distanced by the inadequacy of our linguistic means of communication.To explain art, therefore, is often to give words to nameless process, to actions otherwise confined to instinctive gestures. Herbert Read (Introduction to Paul Klee On Modern Art, Faber and Faber Ltd., London, 1948) JEN ZEN (a.k.a. Prof. Jen Grey) For several years I have been editing a series of computer-generated images that I created on the Cal Tech Workbench, using Stephen Schk lne s proprietary Surface Drawing program. Schk lne, who recently completed his Ph.D. in computer science at Cal Tech, is one of a small number of computer scientists interested in spontaneous 3D freehand drawing in immersive space. As far as I know, there are only a few Ph.D. students who are continuing research in this direction - Dan Keefe, Dept. of Computer Science at Brown University, and Wille Mäkelä, University of Art and Design in Helsinki. When other 3D CGI inventors focused
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