fluxus_workshop

fluxus workshop (2005)

day 1 [tue. 13.dec]	installing / drifting / morphogenesis
day 2 [wed. 14.dec]	animation, programming, fluxus intro → livecoding
day 3 [thu. 15.dec]	graphical programming & programming languages, a 3d world, a general overview of fluxus capabilities
day 4 [fri. 16.dec]	textures, particles, simulation, interaction & i/o
day 5 [sat. 17.dec]	integration & openlab
day 6 [sun. 18.dec]	[optional] evaluation, loose ends and discussion

structure

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

'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