• CreativeProgrammingAssignment201211

Creative Programming Assignment 201211

• Please read AssignmentDescription.

• Please follow the instructions below carefully. It will save us a lot of time.

• For your convenience, please buy a copy of Getting Started with Processing, by By Casey Reas, Ben Fry. e-Books and hard copies are available from O'Reilly

• Before the first lecture, Please download and install Processing on your laptop.

• Always bring with you your laptop, with fully charged batteries and power cables.

1. Summary of the structure

• This assignment takes seven weeks. Each week has:
  • a two hour lecture,
  • a two hour workshop,
  • and 12 hour self study tasks.
• Exercises given by the lecturers,
• Two challenges. One for the first four weeks and the other for the last three weeks. Your result of the challenge will be exhibited or presented during a scheduled workshop.
  • All the assigners and the students will visit the exhibition and give comments to each other.
  • Some of the results will be selected for plenary presentation.

2. Schedule

2.1. Part 1

• Challenge: Creating static visual arts. At the end of this part, every student is expected to be able to

  • create an artistic poster that demonstrates beauty and complexity, using Processing
  • print the result and present it on a form board (A3 only please), for the interactive session in the third week.
• Examples for inspiration

  • 

• What to be delivered:

  • Source code. Please zip the sketchbook and deliver the zip file. Please use the zip format only.

  • PDF of the print.

2.1.1. Week 1: Introduction and Variables

• Presentation by Rene Ahn: PresentationWeek1.pdf

2.1.2. Week 2: Control flows and PDF output

• Presentation by Loe Feijs: PresentationWeek2.pdf

• Examples: ExamplesWeek2.zip

2.1.3. Week 3: Interactive Session 1

• Everyone brings your A3 print (presented on a form board nicely) to the session.
• Prepared to present your concepts and techniques to the others.
• All the assigners will be present.

2.2. Part 2

• Challenge:

• Create interactive visual arts. At the end of this part, every student is expected to be able to create an interactive installation that
  • uses a webcam to capture movements as input, and
  • as output, dynamically render visual arts in real time as output.
• You may work individually or in pairs.
• Examples for inspiration

  • View the video on YouTube.

    View the video on YouTube.

• What to be delivered:

  • Source code. Please zip the sketchbook and deliver the zip file. Please use the zip format only.

  • A TXT file including a link to a YouTube video that demonstrates the interactivity. We would expect a good quality video. Please include the link in a plain text file with an extension “.TXT”. The video shall be titled as

    CreaPro 2012: <a meaningful title> by <your names>

    Please also include a brief description (in the TXT file as well as on YouTube) about the concepts behind your video and the implementation techniques. Tag your video with “creapro”.

2.2.1. Week 4: Functions, Arrays and Algorithms

• Presentation by Mathias Funk: PresentationWeek4.pdf

2.2.2. Week 5: Classes, Objects and Computer Vision

• Presentation by Jun Hu: PresentationWeek5.pdf

• The Car Example: ExampleWeek5.zip

• Computer vision (movement detection) using Myron

  • Library: JMyron (WebCamXtra), or JMyron.zip

  • If the camera image is mirrored and you can not adjust it from the settings of the camera, you might need ManyCam Virtual Webcam.

  • For Windows platforms: If you got an error message saying "JMyron.dll can not find dependent libraries" or something similar, please check first whether you have copied the DLL's to required directory. If you are sure you have done it correctly, follow the following steps to install additional DLLs:

    • Download msvc71.zip

    • unzip it, copy both msvcp71.dll and msvcr71.dll to

      • C:\Windows\system, if you are running 64bit Windows.

      • C:\Windows\system32, if you are running 32bit Windows.

  • For Mac OS X platforms:

    • Intel (most newer Macs): first unpack and install JMyron.zip, THEN replace the file "libJMyron.jnilib" in the folder JMyron/library with the file from here

    • PowerPC (old Macs only): you can use JMyron.zip without any changes

• Read the book "Getting Started with Processing", chapter 5 "Response", learn how to respond to mouse events.

• It is recommended to learn how to use a GUI library to create your own interface. Check out ControlP5.

2.2.3. Week 6: Interactive Session 2

• Bring your interactive demonstration to the session.
• Be prepared to present the concepts and the techniques to the others.

3. Deliverables

• An invitation to a shared DropBox folder will be sent to everyone. Please join the shared folder.

• Code of conduct: do not change/delete the documents from the others. Do not upload huge files.

• Upload files in your own folder: DG200-201202/Deliverables/Part <1|2>/<Your Name>. . Do not change the structure of the folder.

• Feedback request after the assignment:

  • Please send your request only to one of the assigners, according to this RegistrationList.xls.

  • Attach all your deliverables to the request, as identical to the files in the DropBox folder. Including:

    • ZIP file of the source code from part 1.
    • PDF from part 1.
    • ZIP file of the source code from part 2.

    • TXT file containing the YouTube link from part 2.

4. Installing Processing

1. Download processing. Please make sure you are downloading the latest stable release. There are two versions, one with Java, one without. If you are not sure, download the one with Java.

   • For those who know what the JDK is and wants to install Processing along with JDK: You need x32 version of the JDK no matter whether you are running an x32 or x64 system.

   • If you don't understand what the above comment is about, download the one with Java.

2. Create a directory "Programs" on the C: disk, in the root. If "C:\Programs" exists already, skip this step.
3. Extract the entire directory to C:\Programs (note, not "C:\Program Files"). if you are reinstalling Processing, remove the entire processing directory first.
4. Create a shortcut on your desktop to "Processing.exe" for easy access.

5. If you have questions or if you need help

• The assigner will announce a help hour during his lecture.
• The assigner will be available during this hour only if one or more of you make an appointment.