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Integrating Technology for Intelligent Products, Systems and Services

International Design Institute, Zhejiang University

$/!\$ Please notice that the planning and the content of the course is subject to frequent change. Please do check back often.
Please bring a laptop with you to the class. Windows is preferred.
Please bring with you the power adapter for your laptop.
$/!\$ Before you come to the first lecture, please download the following files to your laptop:
- e-books. Please notice that these books are all copyrighted material. They can be used only for your own educational purposes during this course. Please remove these books from your computer after the course. Please do not distribute any further. This file will be removed from this website after the first lecture.
  - It would be convenient to have hard copies of these books. Please see below the references for the details. You can buy these books from either http://www.douban.com or http://www.amazon.cn/
- Download the Processing programming environment. Or go to the Processing website, download it from there. Do not download the version "without java". Having downloaded it, leave it on your computer and do not install it yet. We will do it together during the first lecture.

Contents

1. Week 1: Processing Basics

12 hours (6 class hours + 6 practice hours) + extra hours if needed.

Creating static visual arts. At the end of the week, every student is expected to be able to
- Create an artistic poster that demonstrates beauty and complexity, using Processing
- Print the result and present with a frame, or on a form board.
Examples for inspiration
Source code of the last example above: TriangleFlowerPDF.zip

Read the Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 6(Fonts), 7(Translate, Rotate, Scale), 8, 10(Make an Array, Repetition and Arrays) and 11(Image Export) from the book Getting Started with Processing. Try to experiment with the examples.
In the example for PDF output (TriangleFlowerPDF.zip), we used a recursive function call to triBlur(). What is a recursive function call? Read 13.10 Recursion (p.216-220) in the book Learning Processing.

12 hours (6 class hours + 6 practice hours) + extra hours if needed.

Create interactive visual arts. At the end of the week, 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.
Examples for inspiration
- (Minority Report)
- (Minority Report in reality)

12 hours (6 class hours + 6 practice hours) + extra hours if needed.

12 hours (6 class hours + 6 practice hours) + extra hours if needed.

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+ * Read the Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 6(Fonts), 7(Translate, Rotate, Scale), 8, 10(Make an Array, Repetition and Arrays) and 11(Image Export) from the book ''Getting Started with Processing''. Try to experiment with the examples.