UCSC, Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) MFA Program
DANM 220: Computer Programming for the Arts, Winter 2008
Professor: Ralph Abraham, Ph.D. Math

Student: G. Craig Hobbs || Craig's DANM Homepage||

Week 1, Tuesday 01.08.08 - Report favorite three sample models via email to rha@ucsc.edu

1. which three sample models of NetLogo most appeal to you ???

1 - Biology/ Evolution/ Sunflower Biomorphs
I love this genetic algorithm. Selective mutation, asymmetry and primitives! What more could a mutant ask for?

2 - Art/ Sound Machines
Beautiful, random, awkward sonic chaos/ Weird sound machines like an Yves Tinguely sculpture, http://www.tinguely.ch/en/museum/jean_tinguely_follow.html

3 - Social Science/ Rumor Mill
Not so complex computationally, but I just love social science modeling algorithms. Modeling human behavior is a simultaneously futile and noble endeavor!

A few other things I have discovered...

Speed - These apps fly on my Intel duo core 2.3ghz. As such, I find slowing them down a bit really helps to observe the behavior in more detail

3d view - Love the 3d view. Nothing like a little bit of orthogonal perspective to spice space up!

2. In what way might you envision using your own computer program
in a future project ???

Short version
I am interested in database cinema. I would like to write a program which can assemble narratively and process procedurally video clips in real time based on user proximity in a physical space, using Processing and/or MAX/MSP.

Advanced version
I am interested in breaking the 2d plane... Through spherical projection, projection on polygonal objects, fog banks, buildings, etc. I wish to map real-time data on a spherical display system (an internally projected spherical object) to model sociopolitical content, climate data, abstract and representational imagery.