Yoshiyuki Abe's computer graphics appear to be perfect photographs, however, the motives do not exist in our world.

As a photographer, I had long been feeling a sense of insufficiency. We can only photochemically fix objects / persons on films that actually exist before the lens. Even if the camera has the ability to record objects which are in the dark or far away with high speed films and telephotolenses, the object must be there physically.

My introduction to computer graphics was the idea of producing the photo without the camera. I was excited by the idea, but soon disappointed, because I learned that a computer with a full colour system was expensive, and software systems were not well designed at that time, around 1980.

That is why I decided to design and construct both hardware and software myself. Now I work with the tool of electronic imaging that provides something that does not exist in our world.

Mathematics based image creation needs many trials with varied parameters of the primitives and the lighting conditions so that the artist's working environment affects his or her work. Although I believe the best tool for artists is thatwhich they have designed for themselves, and although that may be a hard task formany artists, we have to know that everyone can do 100 percent identical work in the digital system.

My recent interest is in manipulating parabolic hyperboloids which provide simple but interesting surfaces very easily. I believe imagination is triggered by experience. Imagination is the association of ideas, I believe. If we were born in space and grew up with only star dust, who would be able to imagine an apple - its shape, its colour, its taste? Generating mathematics based images means expanding our imaginations, at least in the form of shape.


Technical Background
HW: PC 80486, 80186, 8087 Home Brew Full Color Frame Buffer
SW: Original Raytracer