Integrating Technology for Intelligent Products, Systems and Services

(c) 2011 Jun Hu, Loe Feijs

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Integrating Technology for Intelligent Products, Systems and Services

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.
- Download Processing programming environment. Or go to Processing website, download it from there. Do not download the version "without java". Have downloaded it, leave it on your computer and do not install it yet. We will do it together during the first lecture.

Week 1

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

Challenge

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
Source code of the last example above: TriangleFlowerPDF.zip

Skills needed to meet the challenge

Get acquainted with the Processing programming environment
Be able to understand and to make use of the following concepts
- Variables and types
- Control flows
- Arrays
- Functions
- 2D Graphics

Extra reading

TBD

Week 2

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

Challenge

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
- dynamic visual arts as output
Example

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gspeak.flv

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References

Websites
Books