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1982: The Spotted Christmas Tree


Front page

Front page of 1982 card

This was a stylised picture of a Christmas tree, with the tree formed of a number of conic frustra, and both its stem and pot of cylinders. There was no outline, but rather the shape of the design was suggested by covering the visible surfaces with random spots. These spots were supposedly distributed evenly on the surfaces of the solid object – which meant, of course, that they were distributed appropriately unevenly on the actual picture; this unevenness created the impression of solidity in the tree.

The design was created by computer program and the result output to microfilm, the cards themselves being printed photographically. (Thanks to Bob Lobley for the use of the Art Department’s darkroom at Latymer Upper School.)

Inside page

This had the card’s message, Happy Christmas Brian Barker, repeated across each line and starting randomly on each line.

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Version 25: Revised 22 December 2008
Brian Barker