{"id":15831,"date":"2026-04-18T14:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T12:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/?post_type=artists_ui&#038;p=15831"},"modified":"2026-04-18T15:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:33:08","slug":"sine-curve-man","status":"publish","type":"artists_ui","link":"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/artists_ui\/artists\/csuri-charles\/sine-curve-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Sine Curve Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_gallery slides_per_view=&#8221;4&#8243; images=&#8221;13305&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;Sine Curve Man (1967)&#8221; font_size=&#8221;16&#8243; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; font_weight=&#8221;600&#8243;][vc_column_text]Csuri created this revolutionary self-portrait, known as the first figurative computer drawing done in the U.S. As a fine art professor at The Ohio State University, he used an IBM 7094, considered one of the most powerful computers of the early 1960s. The 7094 was employed by NASA in both the Gemini and Apollo space programs, and it was used in early missile defense systems as well. The output of the 7094 consisted of 4-\u00d7-7-inch punch cards that stored information to drive a Cal Comp 565 drum plotter, specifying when to pick the pen up, move it, and put it down, as well as when the end of a line had been reached, and so on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More works<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/artists_ui\/artists\/csuri-charles\/numeric-miling\/\">Numeric Miling<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/artists_ui\/random-war\/\">Random War<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_gallery slides_per_view=&#8221;4&#8243; images=&#8221;13305&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;Sine Curve Man (1967)&#8221; font_size=&#8221;16&#8243; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; font_weight=&#8221;600&#8243;][vc_column_text]Csuri created this revolutionary self-portrait, known as the first figurative computer drawing done in the U.S. As a fine art professor at The Ohio State University, he used an IBM 7094, considered one of the most powerful computers of the early 1960s. The 7094&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"kayo-button-simple wvc-button wvc-button-size-xs\" href=\"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/artists_ui\/artists\/csuri-charles\/sine-curve-man\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":12977,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[],"class_list":["post-15831","artists_ui","type-artists_ui","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry","clearfix","entry-grid","entry-columns-default","entry-artists_ui-module-layout-standard","no-post-thumbnail","entry-artists_ui","entry-artists_ui-grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists_ui\/15831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists_ui"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artists_ui"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists_ui\/12977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}