Ralf Birkenhain

Ralf Birkenhain of Munich won a prize in the computer graphics competition that the Munich computer weekly Computerwoche announced in 1983. The competition folder holds his Japanische Fähre (Japanese ferry), made of dense vertical zigzag lines shifted in blocks across the page.

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Ralf Birkenhain of Munich won a prize in the computer graphics competition that the Munich computer weekly Computerwoche announced in July 1983. The paper had asked its readers to send in their own pictures with notes on the hardware and software behind them.

The computer artist Herbert W. Franke sat on the Computerwoche jury that picked ten winners, and the list published on January 20, 1984, names Birkenhain among the seven who received 350 marks each from the sponsor, NCR of Augsburg. The competition folder holds his Japanische Fähre (Japanese ferry), made of dense vertical zigzag lines shifted in blocks across the page.