IFD:Advanced Computational Design

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Lecturer(s): Frederic Gmeiner
Credits: 6 ECTS, 3 SWS
Date: Tuesday, 17:00 - 19:15h
Venue: Marienstraße 7b, Room 105
First meeting: 17.04.2012

Description

Advanced Computational Design

This class is meant to give an overview about general advanced programming techniques, tools and concepts as well as a deeper look at current software technologies and how to deal with them in the context of media and interface design. The structure of the class will be organised in a workshop-like manner where each participant will have to prepare a presentation of a topic of his choice related to the curriculum.


Topics

OOP recap

  • Classes and inheritance
  • Scopes (public / private)
  • Examples & excercises

IDEs & tools

  • Eclipse and Processing
  • Autocompletion, Debugging

Structures & concepts

  • Datatypes in detail (String, ints, floats, double, ArrayList, HashMap ...).
  • Images and pixels >> exercises
  • Vector concepts and agents
  • Simple physics and particle systems

OpenFrameworks / oF

  • C++ concepts (pointer, header files...)
  • How to work with OpenFrameworks
  • Examples and excercises

3D with OpenGL

  • Primitives, lights, cameras in oF
  • What is OpenGL?
  • Concepts and terminology of 3D
  • Examples in oF

Computer vison with OpenCV

  • What is OpenCV?
  • Concepts and terminology
  • Examples in oF
  • Tracking example with kinect and OpenCV

Further topics / tools

  • Version control with GIT
  • Regular expressions / RegEx
  • Formats and protocols: XML, JSON, OSC... - Jelena Djokic

Admission requirements

Applicants must have successfully completed the “Physical Computing I” class or have a fundamental knowledge of a high-level object-orientated programming language like JAVA. 

Registration procedure

Leistungsnachweis

Referat, aktive Teilnahme, Dokumentation, Eintrag im Wiki

Eligible participants

Graduates enrolled in the Faculties of Media, Gestaltung and in the MediaArchitecture program

Syllabus

  • 17.04. Introduction, entry-level questionaire, topics and dates of student presentations
  • 24.04. Object orientated concept recap: Classes and inheritance, scopes (public/privat), examples and excercises
  • 08.05. Movement with velocity, simple collision detection of objects
  • 15.05. Arrays and other datatypes
  • 22.05.
  • 29.05. Images & Pixels (Yue Mao) && Particle system/physics (Jie Wang)
  • 05.06. Simple 3D in Processing (Xin Wang)
  • 12.06. Introduction to openGL (Yunshui Jin)
  • 19.06. Introduction to computer vision with openCV (Ivo Santos)
  • 26.06. Tracking example with kinect and OpenCV + Demo with ofxOpenNI, ofxKinect (Patawat)
  • 03.07. Processing and the web (Augusto Gandia)
  • 10.07. Protocols & communication formats XML/JSON (Jelena Djokic)

Literature

Hinweis: Die hier aufgeführte Literatur ist optional und nicht verbindlich!

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