Reading
For next week, read:
- Ivan Sutherland. Sketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System. pp. 109-127
Current Show
Open Music Ensemble and Peter Arvidson, at Burchfield-Penney Art Center
http://www.burchfield-penney.org/exhibit/
through February 8
Algorithmic Art
Automatic Painting
Programs to control a pen-plotter
Roman Verostko
http://verostko.com/algorithm.html
Frame Buffer
A digital image is a 2 dimensional array of pixel colors
Pixel = "picture element"
Each pixel is a sample of a continuous, analog image
Each pixel consists of number(s), representing a color
Similar to pointillism - breaking an image down into discrete samples
Fractals
Discovered/invented (?) by Benoit Mandelbrot.
Mathematically defined objects with self-similarity at different
levels of detail
Mandelbrot set:
z <- z*z + c
Fractals
Dan Sandin, John Hart
Fractals
Ken Musgrave
Fractals
Ken Musgrave
Op-Era
Daniela Kutschat, Rejane Cantoni
Cellular Automata
Each pixel is a simple computer
Artifical Evolution
Karl Sims
Mathematical Building-Blocks
r = sin(x)
g = cos(y)
Artifical Evolution
- Primordial Dance
- Liquid Selves
Artificial Evolution
Galapagos
website
Historical Connections
Surrealists - "Automatic drawing"
John Cage
Chance processes
Used I Ching and/or computer
Classical Music
Mozart's Musical Dice Game
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