The mysterious cover of Joy Division’s 1979 debut Unknown Pleasures – a black-and-white visualization of pulsar data that looked like digital mountain peaks – is the subject of a new, in-depth Scientific American article. The magazine traced the origins of the “computer-generated illustration” to its first publication around 1970.

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Source: RollingStone
Link: Joy Division’s ‘Unknown Pleasures’ Cover: The Science Behind an Image