Project 1: Generative Art & Data Visualization

Develop a project in one or a combination of the following topics:

• Generative art -> creating systems to generate output
• Data visualization -> interpreting data for exploration

Generative Art

Casey Reas Process Compendium

• Introduction video
• Process Compendium text

Marius Watz

Emergence

• Conway's Game of Life
  • Processing GameOfLife example: Examples->Topics->Cellular Automata->GameOfLife
• Flocking
  • Craig Reynolds Original 1986 Boids demo
  • Boids by Craig Reynolds
  • Processing Flocking example: Examples->Topics->Simulate->Flocking
  • Related: Steering Behaviors

Theo Jansen

• Theo Jansen: Mycreations, a new form of life (TED talk)
• strandbeest evolution
• Theo Jansen - The Great Pretender (algorithm)

Karl Sims

• Evolved Virtual Creatures - Karl Sims (video) 1994

Neural Networks

• Intro to Neural Networks
• Mar/IO - neural network mario player

Nervous System

Reaction-Diffusion

• Reaction-diffusion system
• Reaction-Diffusion Tutorial by Karl Sims

Voronoi

• Voronoi diagram
• Boundary Functions - Scott Snibbe 1998

David Rokeby - n-Cha(n)t 2001

Harold Cohen

• AARON 1970s - present
• Watch AARON at Work

Ken Feingold

• If/Then - Ken Feingold 2001
• Hell 2013

Data Visualization

Aaron Koblin

• Flight Patterns
• Ten Thousand Cents

Martin Wattenberg

• Shape of Song 2001
• Baby Name Voyager 2005
• flesh map 2008
• wind map 2012

Ben Fry

• zipdecode 1999

Sensors

• Huygens spacecraft Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer (DISR) visualization

Music

• Music Animation Machine
• The Most Timeless Songs of All-Time: Using Spotify to Measure the Popularity of Older Music

News & Data

• Ebru Kurbak & Mahir Yavuz - News Knitter
• 9578 files - Anika Hirt & Margit Blauhut 2009

Internet

• The Internet Map
• Paul DeMarinis - The Messenger 1998/2005
• Murmur Study - Chris Baker 2009

Social

• Social Collider
• We Feel Fine
• Twistori
• HELLO WORLD! - Chris Baker 2009

Military

• A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - Isao Hashimoto
• Out of Sight, Out of Mind
• Dronestagram - James Bridle
• @dronestream - Josh Begley -> interview
• and counting... - Wafaa Bilal 2010

Corporate

• Deep Horizon - UBERMORGEN.COM 2010
• They Rule 2004

Helpful

• Your Random Numbers by Jer Thorp

Due Dates

• 4/13: Idea presentation (ideas, inspiration), include at least 2 examples of work not introduced in class that influences your thinking
• 4/20: In progress presentation (work you've done so far, examples) for critique
• 4/27: Finished project presentation