CSC106: Calendar

1. Week 1
2. Tue, Jan 26 - Course Overview
   • Get Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists by Casey Reas and Ben Fry.
3. Thu, Jan 28 - Intro to Algorithmic Art
   • Read: Processing pp. xxi-7
   • Read: Digital Art by Christiane Paul pp. 7-25
   • Read: Quad by Samuel Beckett
   • If you are a 5 college student get a Smith Novell Netware account from ITS
4. Week 2
5. Tue, Feb 2 - Processing
   • Read: Processing pp. 9-36
   • View: work by Reas and Levin
6. Thu, Feb 4 - Processing
   • Read: Processing pp. 37-50, 145-153 (example code from book available for download)
   • View: Riley, Mondrian, Wilson, Csuri, Canogar, and Fry
   • Due: p. 35, Nos. 1 & 2 (submit the homework via email)
7. Week 3
8. Tue, Feb 9 - 2D Graphics
   • Read: Processing pp. 51-68, 127-132
   • Read/View: Processing pp. 155-164 (1 -- 2)
9. Thu, Feb 11 - Repitition
   • curveVertex and bezier examples from class
   • Read: Processing pp. 69-78, 181-196
   • Read/View: Processing pp. 165-170 (beowolf)
   • Due: p. 68, Nos. 1,2,3
10. Week 4
11. Tue, Feb 16 - Color
    • Read: Processing pp. 85-94
    • Read: Introduction to Color Theory
12. Thu, Feb 18 - Form Follows Function
    • Read: basic design principles and design elements
    • Due: p. 196, Nos. 1,2,3
13. Week 5
14. Tue, Feb 23 - Display Technologies
    • Read: Processing pp. 603-616
15. Thu, Feb 25 - Screen Based Interaction
    • Read: Processing pp. 79-83, 205-228
    • Due: p. 227, No. 2
16. Week 6
17. Tues, Mar 2 - User Input
    • mouse input, mouse events, images, and and font examples from class
    • Read: Processing pp. 117-126, 229-238
    • Read/View: Processing pp. 255-260 (run relevant sketches from book code)
18. Thu, Mar 4 - Motion Class Cancelled
    • Read: Processing pp. 173-180, 237-250
    • Due: Project 1 - work in progress
19. Week 7
20. Tue, Mar 9 - Time (& Motion)
    code from class
    • Read: Processing pp. 197-204, 279-300
    • Read: Seven Ways of Misunderstanding Interactive Art by Erkki Huhtamo
    • View: additional references from reading
21. Thu, Mar 11 - Project 1 Critique Lab
    • Due: Project 1 - work in progress
22. Week 8
23. spring
24. break
25. Week 9
26. Tue, Mar 23 - Project 1 Critique
27. Thu, Mar 25 - GUIs
    • Read: Processing pp. 251-254, 301-314
    • Reading: History of the GUIs
28. Week 10
29. Tue, Mar 30 - Arrays and Data Visualization
    • Read: Processing pp. 435-452
    • Read: Data Visualization Modern Approaches
30. Thu, Apr 1 - Interaction (revisited)
    • Read: Transforming Mirrors by David Rokeby
31. Week 11
32. Tue, Apr 6 - Sound in Processing
    array code from class.
    • Read:Processing pp. 579-600
33. Thu, Apr 8 - Image
    • Read: Processing pp. 95-104, 315-326
    • Due: Sound HW - create a Sketch that uses sound as input or output (or both)
34. Week 12
35. Tue, Apr 13 - Computer Vision
    • Read: Processing pp. 337-366
36. Thu, Apr 15 - Project 2 - Critique
    • Project 2: Interactive / Dynamic 2D Design
37. Week 13
38. Tue, Apr 20 - Project 2 - Critique (cont.)
39. Thu, Apr 22
    • Due: Final Project Proposals
40. Week 14
41. Tue, Apr 26 - The AI Aesthetic
    • Read: TBA
42. Thu, Apr 28 - Work in Progress
    • Show Work in Progress
43. Week 15
44. Final Project Critique (Date & Time TBA)