Contemporary Dance Animation Studies: A blog which shall record my observations and discoveries in emergence, spontaneous-order, collective intelligence, complex adaptive systems and cybernetics. Using time and [virtual 3D] space as the medium, I shall be exploring thresholds of abstraction in the human form and the potential of emotion in abstract animated forms.
"If the primary stuff of music is sound, which I believe, then notation, no matter how ordinary or idiosyncratic, is no more than a representation of the real thing.
Furthermore a description of notation such as this is a symbolic representation of a symbolic representation - twice removed from reality."
Lejaren A. Hiller, Jnr
[sourced from John Cage's Notations (link to PDF of book)]
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Labels: notation
FractalAbyss
P:0 / site
Genr8
LandonGray - fractal plugin
L-System Plugin
Voronoi Diagrams:
These kinda act like waves interacting with slightly submerged objects.
Mathematica
Voronoi Algorithms
Architecture Students:
Southern California Institute of Architecture
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Notation as a Tool of Thought - pdf
This guy won an award for this lecture.
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Labels: algorithms, code, notation
OK. I think I am finally ready to begin experimenting from the research. I have narrowed the focus down to a few select areas, and shall start modeling and coding tomorrow.
Wish me luck! :)
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Here are some of the books on mathematics in nature and architecture that I am looking into. Have been playing around with mel scripts from the first book.
Algorithmic Architecture - Kostas Terzidis - pdf - Brilliant book. Includes mel scripts.
The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants - P. Prucinkiewicz, A. Lindenmayer - pdf - From the guy who coined the term 'L-systems' [Linenmayer-systems] comes a book that decodes the creation of plants using mathematical algorithms.
On Growth and Form - D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson - pdf - Huge book that analyzes how organic forms are created in nature. Now in the public domain.
Enjoy.
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Labels: algorithms, architecture, nature
- Created by "The OpenEnded Group" -
Description taken from the site:
[link]
Field is a software project initiated by OpenEnded Group, for the creation of their digital artworks. It is an environment for writing code to rapidly and experimentally assemble and explore algorithmic systems. It is visual, it is hybrid, it is code-based. We think that it has something to offer a diverse range of programmers and artists.
Field is a development environment for experimental code and digital art in the broadest of possible senses. While there are a great many development environments and digital art tools out there today, this one has been constructed with two key principles in mind:
Embrace and extend — rather than make a personal, private and pristine code utopia, Field tries to bridge to as many libraries, programming languages, and ways of doing things as possible. The world doesn't necessarily need another programming language or serial port library, nor do we have to pick and choose between data-flow systems, graphical user interfaces or purely textual programming — we can have it all in the right environment and we can both leverage the work of others and take control of our own tools and methods.
Live code makes anything possible — Field tries to replace as many "features" with editable code as it can. Its programming language of choice is Python — a world class, highly respected and incredibly flexible language. As such, Field is intensely customizable, with the glue between interface objects and data modifiable inside Field itself. Field takes seriously the idea that its user — you — are a programmer / artist doing serious work and that you should be able to reconfigure your tools to suit your domain and style as closely as possible.
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