Decorative Sunday
The patterned papers shown here were designed and created with software developed by Warren Stringer and Beth Regardz, laser printed on handmade colored Japanese Moriki paper using multiple layers of metallic foils, and published in a miniature (75 x 75 mm) Coptic-bound book entitled Patterns from Chaos, produced in Santa Cruz, California by Peter & Donna Thomas in 1991 in an edition of 50 copies signed by all four.
The concept of chaos theory and cellular automata was developed in Santa Cruz at University of California Santa Cruz by Ralph Abraham and colleagues. Warren Stringer wrote original code in Santa Cruz based on these concepts. Beth Regardz co-founded the Cabrillo College Digital Media program where Peter Thomas took his first computer classes from her.
Peter and Donna collaborated with Regardz and Stringer on the concept and design for this book. To create the images each sheet of Moriki paper was passed through the printer two times for each color (once to apply the toner and once to fuse the metallic foil to the paper). Thus an image with three colors passed thru the printer six times. Our copy of Patterns form Chaos is a gift from Peter & Donna Thomas.
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