Inspired by an avalanche of dazzling 3-D computer graphics in the U.S. in the late 1980s, Latham took up computing as a way to automate his form generation.

• 1980年代后期令人眼花缭乱的电脑3-D图形在美国大量兴起，受此启迪，拉萨姆开始采用电脑运算来使他的形态生成自动化。