GMU:Meandering through Space/Part3

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Meandering Machines


Braitenberg Vehicles

Braitenberg vehicle on Wikipedia


About

In this lecture we will learn how to create Braitenberg Vehicles in Processing.

Literature

Art


Drawing Homeostats

Postcard depicting Kaiser Willhelm II as Steersman (1906)


About

In this class we will learn about the homeostat and the mobile homeostat, and how to implement them

  • The Homeostat — in the 1st part we recreate the homeostat by Ross Ashby in code.
  • The Mobile Homeostat — in the 2nd part we create a drawing machine based on Ashby's Homeostat.

Goals

  • Basics of oscillators, synchronisation, and homeostasis
  • Basics of modelling complex systems
  • Programming a drawing-agent based on the ideas of homeostasis and meta-stability

Literature

Code


Reactive Curves

Martin Schneider: Codex Processianus (2010)


About

In this lecture we learn how to program turtles to make them react to an their environment

  • Image Based Curves
  • Flowfield Based Curves

Goals

  • Introduction to Image Based Drawing
  • Introduction to Flowfield Based Drawing
  • Learn about image formats and how to work with images in processing
  • Learn how to generate vector fields from noise functions
  • Learn to work with arrays of vectors and two dimensional arrays

Art

Image Based Drawing

Flowfield Based Drawing

One Line Drawing

Code


Swarming Curves

Studio Moniker: Red follows Yellow follows Blue follows Red


About

In this part we learn about curves created from multi-agent dynamics and complex systems

Literature

Art

Code