Primož Jakopin is coming from a literary and linguistic family
but though he lacks drawing talent, fine art has always been his great passion.
He became interested in computer programming around 1970 because using it
he could make lace-like patterns from
trigonometric and especially cyclometric functions.
Computer he was using, an IBM 1130,
did not have a screen so he could
only see the pictures his program produced when printed on an endless
paper of a line printer, as patterns of characters in white space, mainly asterisks.
In 1971 this work helped him land his first job, in the Computing Center of the Institute for
Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics.
Later, again in the early seventies, he generated random
images from short lines, inspired by works of
Piet Mondriaan. He also
admired the works of Georges Seurat.
After the millenial change and with notable increase in color and
computational capabilities of personal computers he spent some time
exploring the fractal compositions. In 2013, with the advent of
HTML 5 and its
canvas tool,
he began to experiment with program generated images again.
From 2015 vector graphics
is his main topic.
Blue Train. Fractal composition, 2003.
Mellow Yellow. Fractal composition, 2003.
Circles. Digital Color Composition, 2013 & 2015.
N'Toko Le Toubab. Color Composition, 2015.
Cave Ghost in Galacijevka. Color Composition, 2016 - 2017.
Cave Nude in Pink and Turquoise, Color Composition, 2020
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