Course detail
Computer Art
FIT-VINAcad. year: 2017/2018
Introduction into computer art, computer-aided creativity in the context of generalized aesthetics, a brief history of the computer art, aesthetically productive functions (periodic functions, cyclic functions, spiral curves, superformula), creative algorithms with random parameters (generators of pseudo-random numbers with different distributions, generator combinations), context-free graphics and creative automata, geometric substitutions (iterated transformations, graftals), aesthetically productive proportions (golden section in mathematics and arts), fractal graphics (dynamics of a complex plane, 3D projections of quaternions, Lindenmayer rewriting grammars, space-filling curves, iterated affine transformation systems, terrain modeling etc.), chaotic attractors (differential equations), mathematical knots (topology, graphs, spatial transformations), periodic tiling (symmetry groups, friezes, rosettes, interlocking ornaments), non-periodic tiling (hierarchical, spiral, aperiodic mosaics), exact aesthetics (beauty in numbers, mathematical appraisal of proportions, composition and aesthetic information).
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- Syllabus of lectures:
- Towards mathematical art: Art overview in the 20th and 21st centuries.
- Software aesthetics: Visual forms of computer art.
- History of computer art: From analog oscillograms to interactive media.
- Aesthetic functions: From sinus and cosinus to the superformula.
- Aesthetic transformations: Repetition, parametrization and the rhythm of algorithms.
- Aesthetic proportions: Golden section in mathematics, art and design.
- Spirals and graftals: Models of growth and branching in nature.
- Geometric fractals: Iterated functions and space-filling curves.
- Algebraic fractals: From the complex plane to higher dimensions.
- Chaotic fractals: Visual chaos of strange attractors.
- Symmetry and ornament: Periodic tiling and interlocking mosaics.
- Nonperiodic and special ornament: Semiperiodic, aperiodic and hyperbolic tiling.
- Mathematical knots: Knots and braids from the Celts to modern topology.
- Letterism and ASCII art
- Digital improvisation
- Computer-aided rollage
- Generated graphics
- Quantized functions
- Algorithmic op-art
- Genetic algorithms
- Chaotic attractors
- Context-free graphics
- Fractal flames
- Quaternion fractals
- Fractal landscape
- Escher's tiling
- Islamic ornament
- Circle limit mosaics
- Knotting
- Digital collage
- Graphic poster
- Artistic image stylization
- Generated sculpture
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- Programme IT-MSC-2 Master's
branch MMI , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch MBI , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch MSK , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch MMM , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch MBS , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch MPV , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch MIS , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch MGM , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective