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Friday 26 January 2007

Dot and Cross Products

Dot and cross product code

Posted by Alasdair Turner at 16h31

Sunday 17 December 2006

Milan Trip

We've just returned from the AAC field trip to the Generative Art conference in Milan.

As usual, the conference had an eclectic mix of presentations. Personal favourites included Kevin McGuire's arpeggio generator, Matt Lewis's procedural shading, Dustin Stokes and Jon Bird's fractal drawings.

Michael McNamara and Martha LaGess of LaMa also gave an excellent presentation, bringing together ideas concerning cybernetics and architecture. Their focus on place, activity and people relates strongly to the ideas of embodiment we study on the course.

Closer to home, I gave a presentation on an "ecomorphic theatre", and Chiron Mottram presented his work on urban generation.

Posted by Alasdair Turner at 23h43

Friday 01 December 2006

Cellular Automata in Processing

Cellular automata sketches in Processing:

• One dimensional Wolfram CA, fixed edges
• One dimensional Wolfram CA, wrapping edges

• Conway's Game of Life, a glider
• Conway's Game of Life, random start

Some more advanced code:

• Conway's Game of Life, random start, using single array and update loop
• 3D cellular automata

Posted by Alasdair Turner at 18h24

Friday 24 November 2006

NURBS examples

Example Processing code for NURBS:

• A NURBS curve
• The blending functions used to create the curve

And for Adam:

• A Uniform Rational B-Spline with automatically generated knot vector

Enjoy!

Posted by Alasdair Turner at 18h56

Monday 13 November 2006

Welcome to Adaptive Space

Welcome to the Adaptive Space, where we hope to keep you informed of events on and around the MSc Adaptive Architecture and Computation.

The student blogs will be summarised on our front page blog, along with contributions by the course staff on the MSc AAC.

We are using our in house software, Pafweb, to host the blog, so some of the features of a normal blog may be missing, such as the ability to post comments.

That said, on this site we hope to show you as much work (and some of the fun) from the course as possible. We intend to include Processing programs created by the students, as well as photographs from crits and trips.

Posted by Alasdair Turner at 15h24