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Freehand Line Algorithm

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Freehand Line Algorithm

Harold Cohen

ca. 1970

Medium
Photographs of BASIC Freehand Line code; transcription of BASIC Freehand Line code; running BASIC code; Jupyter Notebook with annotated transcription of BASIC code; running Python Code
Accession number
2026.25
Acquired
2026
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Digital Art Committee
Edition
1/8 | 2 APs
Department
collection

About this work

Harold Cohen, Freehand Line Algorithm, ca. 1970. Photographs of BASIC Freehand Line code; transcription of BASIC Freehand Line code; running BASIC code; Jupyter Notebook with annotated transcription of BASIC code; running Python Code. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Digital Art Committee 2026.25. © Paul Cohen

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