lineara: Every Playboy Centerfold, The 1980s (normalized) 2002 Digital C-prints. Ed. 5 2 APs. 60” x 29.5”. From a broader series begun in 1997, the photographs in this suite are the result of mean averaging every Playboy centerfold foldout for the four decades beginning Jan. 1960 through Dec. 1999. This tracks, en masse, the evolution of this form of portraiture. Tech notes on the amalgamation body of work: Most of the early amalgamation print work (Playboy, Class, Homes, 76BJs) was made with code I wrote in C on Unix-based SGIs using Paul Haeberli’s SGI file format. Later amalgamation work (Decades, Late Night, Special Moments) was done in C/C on Windows boxes with the ImageMagick C libraries. I did The Song of the Century manually with PC audio software (I honestly cannot remember what software, but I did download a few of the cover songs with the original Napster) For the City and Loop pieces, we actually modelled much of Chicago’s Loop as semi-transparent, textured rectangles and rendered this “city” from typical tourist vantage points. All of this was done in Maya. The Portrait pieces were done with Processing. Jason Salavon This bears an uncanny resemblance to those images of memories reconstructed from brain scans:

lineara:

Every Playboy Centerfold, The 1980s (normalized) 2002

Digital C-prints.

Ed. 5 2 APs. 60” x 29.5”.

From a broader series begun in 1997, the photographs in this suite are the result of mean averaging every Playboy centerfold foldout for the four decades beginning Jan. 1960 through Dec. 1999. This tracks, en masse, the evolution of this form of portraiture.
Tech notes on the amalgamation body of work:
Most of the early amalgamation print work (Playboy, Class, Homes, 76BJs) was made with code I wrote in C on Unix-based SGIs using Paul Haeberli’s SGI file format.
Later amalgamation work (Decades, Late Night, Special Moments) was done in C/C on Windows boxes with the ImageMagick C libraries. I did The Song of the Century manually with PC audio software (I honestly cannot remember what software, but I did download a few of the cover songs with the original Napster)
For the City and Loop pieces, we actually modelled much of Chicago’s Loop as semi-transparent, textured rectangles and rendered this “city” from typical tourist vantage points. All of this was done in Maya. The Portrait pieces were done with Processing.

Jason Salavon

This bears an uncanny resemblance to those images of memories reconstructed from brain scans:

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