Lecture 09-23: Generative II

Today’s agenda: 

• Breakfast (8.45am, Schatz Dining Hall)
• A look ahead: Units on Interactivity, Typography, Information Visualization; projects involving augmented projection, sound visualization; introduction to arts programming toolkits like openFrameworks and ofxAddons, D3, Basil.js
  • #4: Plotter Composition (due 9/30)
  • #5: Facial Puppet (OSC) (due 10/14)
  • #6: Generative Book (due 10/28)
  • #7: Decorated Skeleton  (11/4)
  • #8: Information Visualization (due 11/11)
  • #9: Networked Object (Arduino) (due 11/18)
  • #10: Capstone Project (due 12/9)
• Feedback on Clock Assignments from Tega Brain and Lauren McCarthy
• Introduction to the work of Rachel Binx and Marius Watz, our GIF critics

Lecture:

• Presentation on Parametric 3D Form (IACD Fall 2015)
• Presentation of computationally generated prints (Marius Watz, DesignIO)
• Use of the Axidraw and  MH871 Plotters
  • Exporting PDF and SVG from Processing
• Some Artists:
  • Georg Nees, Schotter (1968)
  • Manfred Mohr (Early algorithms)
  • Roman Verostko
  • Channa Horwitz
  • Jean Pierre Hebert
  • Leslie Mezei (*)
  • Joanie Lemercier
  • Nick Hardeman (Beard generator, braid generator)
  • Robert Zacharias (pulse)
  • Works on the #PlotterTwitter hashtag
• Some Techniques:
  • Cartesian, Polar & Parametric curves,
    e.g. Mathworld, as discussed in 15104
  • Poisson disc distribution, e.g. Mike Bostock on Algorithm Visualization
  • Perlin noise, e.g. this Tutorial by Gene Kogan