Procedural Painting, Spring 2004

Daniel Shiffman
daniel.shiffman@nyu.edu
http://www.shiffman.net
Office Hours: Tuesday 3-5

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Course Description

This introductory level course covers the basics of computer programming within the context of images, drawing and responsive visual forms. The first few weeks will focus on basic programming concepts: variables, arrays, conditional statements, and iteration. The second-half of the course will cover more advanced topics, such as recursion, image processing, and "3D" transformations. Processing ( http://www.proce55ing.net) will be used as the primary development environment for the class. Weekly assignments are required through the first part of the semester. The end of the semester is spent developing an idea for a final project and implementing it using computer programming.

Syllabus

Week 1 -- 1/23/04	Class Intro
	What is a programming? What is Processing? Concepts: data, control structures, algorithms Syntax and structure of the language (Processing -- graphic primitives and drawing attributes) handout reading: Processing Defined, Josh Nimoy's Processing Tutorial
Week 2 -- 1/30/04	Variables and Conditionals
	Data Types Scope Truth Tables Control Flow -- selection (Processing -- setting colors and color modes) handout
Week 3 -- 2/6/04	Iteration
	Arrays Loops (for & while) (Processing – a little more on color, rotation) handout
Week 4 -- 2/13/04	Modularity
	“procedures” & “functions” parameter passing (by value, by reference – arrays) (Processing – displaying images) handout
Week 5 -- 2/20/04	Intro to Object Orientation handout
	Data & Functionality
Week 6 -- 2/27/04	NO CLASS
Week 7a -- 3/5/04	MIDTERM
Week 7b -- 3/6/04	MAKEUP CLASS, SAT 12:30 PM -- Recursion, 2D Arrays handout READING: Computational Beauty of Nature, Flake
Week 8 -- 3/12/04	Intro to “3D” Concepts
	Transfoms The “Stack” – push/pop handout Reading: How 3-D Graphics Works http://www.cmspro.com/3d_graphics.htm 3D Graphics De-Mystified
-- spring break --
Week 9 -- 3/26/04	Intro to Image Processing
	2D Arrays cntd. thinking in 1D and 2D at the same time Point operations, Group operations, Creative Visualization handout Reading: Handout from Digital Image Processing, Baxes, 1994
Week 10 -- 4/2/04	Image Processing cntd.
	working with live video handout
Week 11 -- 4/9/04	Propose Final Projects
	Intro to Computer Vision handout
Week 12 -- 4/16/04	Final Projects in Progress
	Live Video -- background removal handout
Week 13 -- 4/23/04	Final Projects in Progress
Week 14 -- 4/30/04	Show your work

REQUIREMENTS: (no incompletes)

weekly assignments

final project

class participation, on time attendance

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