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WEEK 1
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April 4
Introduction - Nasty Simulations
stuff.
Challenge 1 - A
Growth Algorithm
Growth by Diffusion Limited Aggregation. Download it from our "Sims"
page.
See what you can do to elaborate the work of the previous class.
Video - "Artificial Life" VPRO Amsterdam 1995 (90 minutes).
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WEEK 2
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April 11
Challenge 2 - Your Choice - Pseudocode,
Modify or Create an Emergent Software Application. See our "Sims"
pages.
A review of the Growth Algorithm and some elements of Borland and C++.
Video - "Artificial Life" VPRO Amsterdam 1995 (90 minutes).
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WEEK 3
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April 18
Cellular Automata - 1d, 2d - Conway's "Game of Life" - Scott
Draves "Bomb"
Borland IDE from the bottom-up. We will build a 1d- Cellular Automata.
Challenge 3 - Explore
the bio-diversity and ecology of Conway's "Game of Life." Explore
and enhance the 1d Cellular Automata application that we built
in class.
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WEEK 4
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April 25
Participant reports on the nature of Cellular Automata. (Enhanced CA apps
on our Sims pages.)
Conclusion of Video - "Artificial Life" VPRO Amsterdam 1995
(90 minutes)
DVD on John F. Simon's "ComplexCity."
Challenge 3 - Sign
up to prepare a PowerPoint or HTML report on a complex evolutionary
artist, "algorist," or "computational artist." Be
prepared to talk about the algorithms in use in detail. Consult our "Alife
Artshow" pages, our "Index, the recommended books, and/or search
the Web. Tell us how the work is done and in what way it makes use of
evolution and/or algorithms.
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WEEK 5
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May 2
Participant reports on complex algorithmic, evolutionary, and/or computational
artists.
Video presentations of artists' works: Karl Sims, Steven Rooke.
Challenge 4 - Sign
up to prepare a presentation on evolutionary design.
Sensor
arrays...
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WEEK 6
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May 9
SIGGRAPH, San Diego, July
27-31. (Exhibits $50, Electronic Theater $50)
Participant reports on evolutionary design. John Mount's geneticArtIII.
Challenge 5 - Project proposals presented
during class.
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WEEK 7
Living
Melodies Demo
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May 16
Participant project proposals: a proof-of-concept working C++ algorithmic
artwork.
Algorist Links. Various topics on evolutionary
and complex algorithms as well as interfaces.
Challenge 6 - "Variations on
Three Major Themes." Document L-System experiments using Gary
William Flake's "Computational Beauty of Nature" Java
Applets. In the CLICC lab, Java Applets will only work under Netscape.
Elsewhere, they should work under IE. Use lower-case "f" not
upper-case "F."
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WEEK 8
Processing
Examples
More
Examples
In our CLICC lab, try
the Java applets using Netscape.
They will not work in Internet Explorer.
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May 23
Mazes...
Sand
Tables... virtual and
augmented reality...
Michael Chang's Tools...
Proce55ing and Stella inspired samples...
The behaviors of many Proce55ing
examples may be coded in C++ without much difficulty.
One remaining challenge: Work on class projects in class.
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WEEK 9
Cybergeography
BCBdev.com
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May 30
Cybergeography: Design as Visualization...
Building a captionless
Window...
One remaining challenge: Work on class projects in class.
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WEEK 10
ESRI Users'
Conference, July 7-11, San Diego:
Student one-day-only-exhibits-only free passes are available
at the Users' Conference. You must present your student ID and take down
these two names: James Cox (who makes these available) and Ann Marie Masangcay
(who told me all this). Print out this email as evidence.
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June 6
The
Economists
In-class presentations and demonstrations of class projects.
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| FINALS WEEK |
No Final - Have a great
Summer!
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