Links and Resources
CS-145: Images and Imagination

Help Resources

• Office hours, tutoring, etc

Ford Lab

• Dual booting computers: The computers in Ford 202 are dual boot. If you hold down the "options" key as the computer boots up, it will give you the option of booting in Windows. If you do nothing, it will boot up as a Mac. It does not matter which you use.

• Mac vs pc keyboard: If you are working in Ford 202 booted to Windows, there can be confusion with the Mac keyboard. To see the mappings of a PC keyboard on a Mac, go here.

• To access the shared network drive called gorr-classes, you need to do the following:

  • On Windows: click on the Computer icon on the desktop, and click on "Map Network Drive". Select any unused drive, and enter \\groupfiles.willamette.edu\workspace\gorr-classes in the Folder textbox. Click Finish.
  • On the Mac: Click on the icon "Connect to your Willamette Home Drive" and log in. Go to the menu at top and select "Go->Connect to Server...". Enter smb://groupfiles.willamette.edu/workspace/gorr-classes
• Taking a screenshot:
  • On a Mac
  • On a PC, use the Snipping Tool.

Tutorials

• Daniel Shiffman
  • ICM Video Series
  • Hello Processing
• Processing Tutorials For example:
  • Transformations
  • Trigonometry
• Processing Wiki

Books, Coding and Algorithmic Art

• Processing
• HTML Intro
• Generative Art by Matt Pearson
• Form & Code, Casey Reas, Code Examples
• Insta IFS: Iterated Function System
• Polynomials, symmetry, and dynamics: an undertaking in aesthetics, Scott Crass
• The Computational Beauty of Nature, Gary Flake, Applets: Includes fractals, iterated functions, L-systems, etc
• Mathematics and Art, by Claude Paul Bruter
• The Computer and the Visual Arts, Anne Morgan Spalter
• Media Computation book in Java
• Creative Code By John Maeda, Works by Maeda
• The Visual Mind: Art and Mathematics, Edited by Michele Emmer
• The Visual Mind II, Edited by Michele Emmer
• The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art
• Manifold Mirrors: The Crossing Paths of the Arts and Mathematics

Articles/Readings

• Articles by Harold Cohen
• Article: Mathematics through Art - Art through Mathematics, Mike Field
• The Turing test and artistic creativity, Boden (Abstract)
• Creativity in a Nutshell, excerpt from The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanism, Boden
• Radiolab: The Turing Problem (podcast)
• Wikipedia: Turing Test
• Computational Aesthetic Evaluation: Past and Future, Philip Galanter
• The Problem with Evolutionary Art, Philip Galanter

Organizations and Conferences

• Art & Science Collaborations, Inc.
• Bridges Organization: Connections between art and mathematics
• The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST)
• Art+Math=X (+plus magazine)
• Journal: Artists Using Science and Technology

Algorithms

• Origami Crane instructions and video
• Sculpture: Fimo Fractals
• Symmetry:
  • Field patterns Using transformations (translation, rotations, etc) to cover the plane.
  • Machines for Building Symmetry, Maria Dedo
• Fractals:
  • Introduction to the Mandelbrot Set
  • Tutorial in Fractals, L-systems, IFS, and Chaos
  • Wikipedia: Fractals
• Cellular Automata
• L-Systems
• Iterated Function Systems , e.g. Barnsley fern
• Symmetry Groups

Art & Design

• Compositional Hints
• Visual Design
• Formal Elements or Concepts of 3D Design
• Design Elements and Principles
• John Lovett - list of elements and principles
• Art, Design, and Visual Thinking: An Interactive Textbook by Charlotte Jirousek
• Design Notes by Jim Saw
• Color Palettes:
  • Adobe Kuler Palette Selector
  • Color scheme designer
  • Color Palette Generator
• Write Design Online
  • All about color.
  • index
• Composition and Design by Marvin Bartel
• Wikipedia:
  • Design elements and principles
  • Composition

Artists, Sample Art, and Museums

• See Algorithmic Artists and Algorithms
• Kurzweil on AARON
• Bathsheba Sculpture
• Wikipedia: Digital Artist
• Wikipedia: Algorists
• Wikipedia: Algorithmic art
• Roman Verostko: Pre-Algorithmic Art and Algorithmic Art
• Bogdan Soban: Generative Art
• Mike Field
• Jared Tarbell: Gallery of Computation
• Marius Watz
• American mathematical Society: Mathematics and Art Artists discussed include, among others, Helaman Ferguson, Nathaniel Friedman, George Hart, Koos Verhoeff, Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Michael Field, M. C. Escher.
• Digital Art Museum, and Artists
• Exhibit at Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art : Imaging by Numbers: A Historical View of the Computer Print
• Austin Museum of Digital Art
• A Course in the Physics & Art of Fluid Flow
• Bioscapes: A life science digital imaging competition. These are not actually algorithmically generated but rather are photos of biological systems as seen through a microscope. Their forms (in many cases) are quite abstract and almost look like paintings or computer generated work.
• Links on Mathematical Art, Graphics, Chaos and Fractals
• Digital Art Gallery (DART)