CS145: Topics for the Week of August 31, 2010

• Administrative Details:

  • First Day Quiz (Anonymous!!)
  • Forms for lab access.
  • Course structure and expectations
  • This course counts towards the Minor in Arts, Technology and Multimedia
  • Assignments will be turn in via WISE.

• Lab 1: Introduction to Processing

• What is Algorithmic Art?

  • Digital Art Museum: Artists
  • Leonardo - Available through the Willamette Library (with a 12 month delay). Click on the link for the Hatfield Library Databases (A-Z). Search down to find and select the EBSCO Databases. Select the "Title List" under the "Academic Search Premier" category. Enter "Leonardo" in the Browsing text area, and choose "Browse". Choose "Leonardo" from the list of items that comes up. Click on the publisher URL or just select an issue (note, there is a 12 month delay).
  • Tarbell
  • Field
  • Verostko
  • Processing Exhibition
  • Bouncing Ball game
  • Simulating Nature:
    • Algorithmic Botany
    • Other L-Systems

• What is an an algorithm?

  • In the logician's voice
  • Making an Origami Crane
  • Origami on a computer
    • TED Talk: Robert Lang folds way-new origami
    • Lang's program for making origami: Treemaker

• Programming Elements - see chapters 1-3 in text

  • Getting Started with Processing
  • Defining the Canvas/Window
  • Build-in functions - size, line, save, etc
  • Expressions (value) vs Statements (complete sentences, end with semi-colon)
  • Drawing shapes and drawing properties
  • Color

• Design Elements and Design Principles. Also see

  • Design Elements - Wikipedia
  • Design Elements - Lovett
  • Composition - Wikipedia

• Color Spaces

  • On the Computer
  • Tristimulus Model and CIE
  • Other Color Models
  • Color Tutorial in Processing
  • Wikipedia - CIE XYZ
  • Wikipedia - RGB Model
  • Human Perception

• Relationship between design and programming

  • Programming as a visual language.
  • Program Elements and Design Elements
  • Mathematics, Algorithms, and Design