Art work "Plotter Drawings" that precisely depicts the waveform that NES brains carve

Many people excited the hearts of "Mario Brothers", "Donkey Kong", "Pac-Man"NESWithin the (NESCON), various processors carried out perform various processes and create a fun game screen. Art work that makes me feel such a thingPlotter Drawings"Is a visual representation of the behavior of chips that operate inside the Nintendo.

Michael Fogleman: Plotter Drawings
https://www.michaelfogleman.com/plotter/

Art work made by artist Michael Foglumann is kore. Although geometrical patterns are drawn, there are many people who think that this is all "NESC brain movement" unexpectedly rising.


"Work" when I played Famicon original masterpiece "Donkey Kong" for 5 minutes is like this. The waveform used in the work was obtained by recording the operation of 2048 bytes of memory (RAM) installed in the NES console at 60 frames per second for each address. However, it is extremely difficult to log the operation of the real NES, so Mr. Fogloman's own NES emulator "NES emulator"It seems that I got data using it.


Forguliman says the waveform recorded by the emulatorPen plotterBy using, I draw like a hand-painted with a real pen. In addition, since the waveform being used actually takes out only the signal of the address whose value has changed, it seems that the signal of all the addresses is not arranged.


You can actually see the pen plotter drawing up works while moving with Ueneune in the following movie.

NES Sparklines on Pen Plotter - YouTube


Likewise, it depicts the waveform of "Super Mario Brothers". Whether the waveform is darker than "Donkey Kong" may indicate that complicated processing is being performed accordingly?


Because this work is produced by actually playing the game with the emulator, it is possible to make works of all Famicom games released in America where Fogloman lives.Forguluman's pageSo you can see samples such as "Bubble Bobble", "Pac-Man", "Rockman".


All works can be purchased for 199 dollars (about 22,000 yen). Waveforms are actually measured each time, so literally "one in the world" works are made. Feature of the work is as follows.

·paper:Strathmore Bristol Smooth 11 x 14 inch (28 x 35.5 cm)
·pen:Farber CastelPITT artist pen
· Drawing area:8.5 x 12 inches (21.5 x 30.5 cm)
·amount:Not included
·plotter:AxiDraw V3
Other
· Customizable
· Enter serial number
· Autographed by Forguriman

In addition to this, Mr. Fogloman is publishing numerous creations. "Protein Ribbon Diagrams" which illustrate protein structure using the same plotter is sold for $ 249 (about 27,000 yen).



Apart from real imagery, Foulmund has published various works in Github. You can see the whole picture on the following page where numerous works are arranged side by side.

Michael Fogleman: Projects
https://www.michaelfogleman.com/projects/#pac-man