see also: Abstract Animation History

dates 13-17th dec.2005 / realtime animation / fluxus workshop / workshop_notes

structure

• morning > intro talks, thinking, discussing.
• afternoon > learning by doing.
• evening > optional screenings or further playing

• installing software
• informal presentations

• animation
  • moving images
  • history of experimental animation
• relationship with music
• appropriating stuff from games (and film) industries
• artificial life/generative ideas
• programming
  • why code? (and why computers?)
  • raw material of the computer
  • avoids feature lust/externally imposed upgrade cycle
  • dynamic languages
• fluxus intro
  • entering code
  • camera
  • workspaces
  • loading/saving your scripts
• livecoding
  • manefesto
  • performance videos/toplap video

• graphical programming & programming languages
  • pd/max
  • scripting languages (mel, python)
  • scheme
  • incremental development
• a 3D world
  • cartesian space
  • vector maths
  • matrix maths
• general (scripts)
  • transforms (tree.scm)
  • materials (mattest.scm)
  • livecoding example
  • primitive types
  • polys, nurbs, particles, text
• interfacing i/o
  • audio (bars.scm)
  • networked/osc
  • sensor systems
  • fluxus as audio sequencer (or part of a larger whole)

• textures
  • blending (mandala/spintex)
  • cutouts (clocks)
  • texture coord pdata
    • toonshading / non-photorealism
    • reflection mapping
• particles
  • explosion/smoke/fire/water
  • aggregation
  • particles eroding geometry
• simulation
  • water surface simulation
  • flocking
  • rigid body dynamics
    • livecoded robots (robo.scm etc)
    • chain (chain.scm)
• interaction & i/o
  • basics of games
  • interface (mouse-over thing)
  • sensors for i/o (see: CEED)
• {possibly}
  • mixing rigid body dynamics and genetic programming

integration & openlab

documentation, evaluation, followup

* http://www.pawfal.org/Software/fluxus/

• http://fo.am/darcs/fluxus-space/

see Scheme Programming

• Len Lye, Norman McLaren,
• Oskar Fischinger http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/22/fischinger.html
• Mary Ellen Bute http://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.2/articles1.2/moritz1.2.html
• Stan Brakage.
• Somewhere between the art and film world - outsiders in both

• 'The Computational Beauty of Nature' by Gary William Flake
• scheme programming
• 'Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs' by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman
• 'The Scheme Programming Language' by R. Kent Dybvig.
• opengl manual
• games programming gems
• cg tutorial
• b'mth maths book
• visualisation
• 'Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative' by Edward R. Tufte
• see also InfoViz

• Artificial Life
• Computer Graphics
• Dynamic Systems / ODE
• BioMimicry