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===== fluxus workshop =====

see also:  [[Abstract Animation History]]

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

===== {proposed} schedule =====

structure

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

==== day 1 ====
  * installing software
  * informal presentations

==== day 2 ====

* 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

==== day 3 ====

* 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)

==== day 4 ====

* 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

==== day 5 ====

integration & openlab

==== day 6 [optional] ====

documentation, evaluation, followup

===== software =====

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

===== examples =====

* http://fo.am/darcs/fluxus-space/

===== scheme references =====
see [[Scheme Programming]]

===== screenings // animated =====

* 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

===== reading =====
 
  * '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

===== related =====

* [[Artificial Life]]
  * [[Computer Graphics]]
  * [[Dynamic Systems]] / [[ODE]]
  * [[BioMimicry]]

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