012209

012209 readings: download

• Introduction from Genesis (the object of this book) by Michel Serres
• Emergence by Steven Johnson
• Self-made Tapestry by Phillip Ball

012209 links2read:

• Breath of Complexity by levitated
• Emergence by wikipedia
• Recursion by wikipedia
• L-system by wikipedia
• References by biothing.org
• Mathworld by wolfram
• Elementary Cellular Automaton by mathworld
• Cellular Automaton by mathworld
• New Kind Of Science by wolfram link 0
• New Kind Of Science by wolfram link 1
• New Kind Of Science by wolfram link 2

012209 links2surf:

• Levitated
• Lovebrain
• Complexification
• The Nature of Code by Daniel Shiffman
• Subdivision by Michael Hansmeyer
• Cellular Automata on flickr
• Generator.x: Generative strategies in art & design
• Exploratorium Geometry
• Alan Turing’s Reaction-Diffusion algorithm for morphogenesis
• The Geometry Junkyard

012209 drawing exercise (printed or hand drawn):

• 24” sq: l-system fractal:
  a>b | b>c | c>a,b & define your own converging rule(s).
  tip: l-systems tend to “grow fast” & you’ll run out of space.
• 24” sq: procedural drawing of your own choice.
  ex. cell aggregation; subdivision; etc.
  research & pick a simple rule-set. (be inventive).
  try to fill the page as much as possible by following the rules.
  tip: keep the number of rules low, the number of iterations (application of rules) high.
• 24” sq: algorithmic exquisite corpse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse)
  divide the 24” in 3 parts & draw 1/3 of it before you pass it on to someone else.

012209 wood goods:

• wood trim molding (baseboard, door trim, etc.)
  furniture fragments (i.e. handrails, balustrades, spindles, etc.)
  serial wood refuse

012209 movies:

• lola rennt (aka run lola run) (1998) – tom tykwer
• zabriskie point (1970) – michelangelo antonioni
• week end (1967) – jean-luc godard
• stalker (1979) – andrei tarkovsky