Artisic Programming

This is the official page for resources related to the CMU Project Ignite group focused on making art from visual and sound based programming. Please see the Project Ignite general organization page here.

Schedule

Theory and Techniques Discussions	Programming Discussions
Introduction to Image Rendering Images (2D signals), Colors, Sampling, Array Packings, Objects vs. Representations. Interpolation Interpolation, Smooth Step Functions, Tons of example functions, Useful Processing Tool (only works with Processing 2.0), Spline Interpolation, CMU 15-462 Assignment about making a keyframe editor, Bicubic Interpolation, Cool GIF.	Processing Basics setup(), draw(), window size, drawing a background, strokes/fill color, points, lines, stroke weights, shapes. Java Programming Basics variables, primitive number types, operators, control flow, loops.

Links

Processing	Visual	Creative
Murder Mystery Game Repository The repository for our final collborative project. Murder Mystery Game Plan The game design document for our Murder Mystery. Processing Reference The official documentation for all of the built in processing functions. Processing Tutorials Official text based and movie tutorials for using processing. Example Projects Projects written by your friendly project mentors using processing. Production Template An example template for creating a multi room program. Processing on Vimeo Processing Projects out in the world on Vimeo.	Visualizing Math Tumblr A Tumblr collecting visualizations of pure mathematical concepts. Zen Photon Garden An interactive 2D fluence renderer that works on the internet. Shaders: Shadertoy A repository of shaders, which are color calculation functions. Flowing Data A website dedicated to data visualization.	Elevated RGBA Amazing Demoscene demo written in under 4k bytes that includes real time audio and visual. Animusic Animations Animusic makes computer animations of fantastical instruments playing music. Creative Applications This is a curated website that shows creative projects. Color Pallet Online Tools Link. Link. Link.

More Resources

Notes	Awesome Books
Bryce's Computer Science Writings Of particular interest would be the presentations about data structures.	The Art of Fluid Animation A wonderful and fun introduction to fluid animation by Jos Stam. Data Structure and Network Algorithms A fantastic and conscise book about data structures and some standard graph algorithms that use them. It is written by Robert Endre Tarjan who is a legendary algorithm and data structue inventor.