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Stephen Todd

A guest on 1 podcast episode. The subject of 1 Timeline moment and mentioned in 4 more (1980 to 1992). Appears alongside 27 other people.

Stephen Todd is a mathematician and programmer who co-developed the FormGrow and Mutator evolutionary art software with William Latham at IBM in the late 1980s. The pair later carried Mutator into virtual reality.

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Quotes

One of my favourite quick stories is we were limited to eight bits, not eight bits per channel but eight bits total for the color.

Stephen Todd, 1980s Computer Art: Mark Wilson, David Em, Dan Sandin

And from an early age, the previous five years, I've been very interested in evolutionary systems, rule-based art, and working with Stephen Todd, we implemented these kind of evolutionary ideas in terms of software.

William Latham, 1980s Computer Art: Mark Wilson, David Em, Dan Sandin

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Podcast appearances

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Timeline Ch 6—Personal Computer Era (1980s) with Mark Wilson, Copper Giloth, Dan Sandin, David Em, William Latham, Stephen Todd, Darcy Gerbarg & Geoff Davis
February 8, 2024
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In the timeline

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