The entire unfolding spectacle was operated by a digital program devised by Turrell and his studio.
He did extensive research into digital filters, devising a new filter, the Hamming window, and eventually writing an entire book on the subject, Digital Filters (1977).
Devise digital subversions?
Modern calculators are descendants of a digital arithmetic machine devised by Blaise Pascal in 1642.
The computer let humans play God, creating life in the digital realm while devising new ways to destroy it in the real world.
A virtual version of this now exists.Bitcoin, the world's "first decentralised digital currency", was devised in 2009 by a programmer called Satoshi Nakomoto (thought not to be his, or her, real name).
GIF, in full graphics interchange format, digital file format devised in 1987 by the Internet service provider CompuServe as a means of reducing the size of images and short animations.
Tablets followed laptops as the device of choice – except that, as Rupert Murdoch discovered after he'd spent millions launching The Daily, tablets were merely one more excuse for devising digital editions and tweaking them hour after hour.
More correctly, his theory applied not only to data but also to communication of all kinds and, combined with the pulse code modulation system of digital telecommunications transmission devised in 1937 by Englishman Alec Reeves, effectively laid the foundations for today's modern digital communications and broadcasting networks, the internet and much more.
The digital app was devised by two lecturers at Leicester's School of Museum Studies, the world's largest training provider in the subject, with 80 master's students, 60 PhD students and a further 250 graduates around the world studying by distance learning.
