GMU:Meandering through Space/Part1

Meandering Curves

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Introduction

Meander Construction by Symmetry Breaking (Stübel)

About

This lecture provides an overview of the course and meanders through space and time.

Goals

• Overview of the course
• History of meanders in nature and design
• Basic understanding of generative coding
• Basic understanding of self organisation

Inspiration

Nature

• Harold Fisk: Mississippi Maps (1944)
• Daniel E. Coe: Willamette River, Oregon (2013)

Culture

• Alois Raimund Hain: Mäander, Kreuze, Hakenkreuze (1852)
• Owen Jones: The Grammar of Ornament (1856)
• koFactorLab: Super-Flexible Laser-Cut Plywood (2015)

Art

• Anni Albers: Red Meander (1954)
• Anni Albers: Intersecting (1962)
• Anni Albers: Under Way (1963)
• Wilson Thomas: Tramarada Font (2011)

Literature

Meanders

• Hans-Henrik Stølum: River Meandering as a Self-Organization Process (1996)
• Jeffrey Ventrella: Brain-filling Curves: A fractal Bestiary (2012)
• Jenny Sabin: Meander: Variegating Architecture (2010) — ISBN 978-0415424271

Lines

• Tim Ingold: Lines: a brief history (2007) — ISBN 978-0415424271 (hint: google it)
• Wassily Kandisky: Punkt und Linie zu Fläche (1926)

Labyrinths and Mazes

• William Henry Matthews: Mazes and Labyrinths: A general Account of their History and Developments (1922)
• Herrmann Kern: Labyrinthe (1999) — ISBN 978-3791306148
• Sam McElhinney: Labyrinths, Mazes and the Spaces inbetween (2009)
• Casey Reas: 10 PRINT (2012) — ISBN 978-0819426529 or PDF

Science

• E.Gail Hutchinson and Janet M.Thornton: The Greek key motif: extraction, classification and analysis (1993)

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Studio Moniker: Conditional Design Workshop

About

In this lecture we will draw curves using everything from paper to online tools.

Goals

• Learn about algorithms
• Learn about constraints
• Design your own algorithm

Sol Lewitt

Sol Lewitt's Walldrawing from the Do It Exhibition (2001):

A black not straight line is drawn at approximately the center of the wall horizontally from side to side.

Alternate red, yellow and blue lines are drawn above and below the black line to the top and bottom of the wall

More walldrawings in this retrospective.

Conditional Design

• Studio Moniker: Conditional Design Website
• Studio Moniker: Conditional Design Workshop (2013)
• Studio Moniker: Conditional Design Keynote (2015)

Hypercomics

• Ted Nelson: Computer Lib / Dream Machines (1974) feat. Hypercomics
• Scott McCloud: Infinite Canvas (2009)

Collaborative Canvas

• Wikipedia: Exquisite Corpse
• Hannes Niepold und Hans Wastlhuber: cOiNTEL (2000) — a collaborative hypercomic
• Ralph Schulz: Super Free Draw (2010)
• Xavier Barrade: Epic Exquisite Corpse (2011)
• Aaron Koblin: This Exquisite Forest (2012)
• Ai Weiwei and Olafur Eliasson: Moon (2013)

Connection Games

• Wikipedia: Hex Board Game
• Cameron Browne: Connection Games: Variations on a Theme (2003) — ISBN 978-1568812243
• John Conway: Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays (1982) — Gewinnen: Strategien für mathematische Spiele

Tiling Systems

• Dominique Douat: Méthode pour faire une infinité de desseins differens (1722)
• Keith Haring: Drawings for Multiple Figures from 8 Seperate Tiles (1982)
• BoardGame Geek: Games inspired by Truchet Tiles

Reading Lists

• Computing without Computers
• Critical Algorithm Studies Reading List

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Random Walks

John Venn The Logic of Chance (1888)

About

In this class we will learn how to use randomness to create curves.

Goals

• Learn to use and create functions in processing
• Basics of determinism, randomness and pseudo-randomness
• Learn about random distributions
• Learn about noise functions

Links

• Walking on Real Numbers
• Visualizing Randomness (Anti-Dataviz)

Art

• Claude Shannon's Theseus in in Live Magazine and Popular Science
• Roomba Art Pool on Flickr
• Drawn not Void by Sergio Albiac (2010)

Science

• How Robotic Vacuums work