Ben F. Laposky

Benjamin Francis Laposky was a mathematician, artist and draftsman in Cherokee, Iowa. He has been credited with making the first computer graphics, utilizing an oscilloscope as the creation medium for abstract art. In 1953 he released what he called Oscillons along with a corresponding thesis entitled Electronic Abstractions via a gallery exhibition of fifty pictures of the same name at Sanford Museum in Cherokee. Laposky is often credited as the pioneer for electronic art, more specifically in the analog vector medium.

He was born September 30, 1914 on a farm south of Cherokee to Peter Paul and Leona Anastasia Laopsky. His siblings were named George and Raymond. At agehis family relocated to Colorado Springs. In 1931 Laposkys mother died. In 1932 Laposky graduated from St. Marys High school, Colorado Springs and shortly thereafter, the family relocated back to Cherokee where he began working as a sign painter and draftsman.

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