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Summary form only given, as follows. The images were created using a custom-made program and Photoshop. The root-level file Connecticut Review Picture is a high-resolution image that was published in the Connecticut Review. The base images were generated using Coulomb\´s law and a set of randomly-placed "point charges." That is, an RBG vector was assigned to each point and the "electric field" at each point was determined in a manner very similar to Coulomb\´s law. This was done independently for each RGB component. Each RUB component was allotted only 16 bits. As a result, every time the "electric field" for a component exceeded 155, it went back to zero. This produced the banding that is characteristic in all of the images. In PhotoShop, numerous filters and color transformations were done. Some images, (top, front), have a subtly embossed look, whereas others, (bottom, front) have a laminated look, almost resembling a photograph of a piece of artwork. Both looks are caused, in part, by the use of the plastic wrap filter. In other cases, only color-adjustments were made. Lighting effects played a big role in a number of images. In some cases, (top, rear) this was done via the lens-flair filter, whereas in others, (bottom, rear), it was done via adjustments to the plastic wrap filter. David Frederick Grouse, a PhD Student of Peter Willett (our Transactions Editor-in-Chief) at the University of Connecticut created these images.