Gaussian Quadratic is the pattern that I produced that I always liked the most because it reminded me, in a way, of a painting, a Cubist painting, Picasso’s Ma Jolie.
A. Michael Noll, A. Michael Noll on When It All Started
Gaussian because randomness, this direction, Gaussian distribution. Quadratic equation going this way, gets to the top, fold it down, starts again.
A. Michael Noll, A. Michael Noll on 1960s Computer Art at Bell Labs