Yoichiro kawaguchi biography graphic organizer

Tanegashima (Japan), 1952

Yoichiro Kawaguchi graduated from Visual Communication Design at the Kyushu Institute of Design in 1976 and received his Master of Fine Arts from the Tokyo University of Education in 1978.

Yoichiro kawaguchi biography graphic organizer

He created his first computer images in 1975, but did not receive widespread recognition until 1982. That year he presented the paper “A Morphological Study of the Form of Nature” at the ACM SIGGRAPH conference, introducing his “growth model,” a self-organising algorithm that allows to create a 3D simulation of the growing of branches or cell divisions in natural organisms.

The artworks created with this algorithm depicted organic forms in constant transformation that were widely acclaimed and became the distinctive elements of Kawaguchi’s work. From 1982 to 1983, he worked with Professor Koichi Omura at the University of Osaka, using a newly developed computer graphic system for rendering realistic images in creating Growth: Mysterious Galaxy (19