Programming A to Z
Bestiary at the Exploratorium
We’ll be showing Bestiary during an evening of “Extended Cinemas” at Exploratorium After Dark on May 5th. There will be lots of intriguing work by other folks, too: Miwa Matreyek Tracey Snelling Nate Boyce Paul Clipson The Three-Minute Picture Show
Bestiary at the ITP Spring Show
Bryan and I are having a great time showing Bestiary, our projection-based book of randomly generated animals, at the ITP Spring Show. Here’s a quick video we shot this morning during set up: Bestiary from Caroline Brown on Vimeo. Yesterday was day one of the show, and we got lots of great feedback on the [...]
Bestiary Sketch (aka Menagerie, Round 3)
Bryan Lence and I revisited our A to Z midterm to create another version of the creature maker. We kept our foundation of the context-free grammar, but we altered our template for the images. Instead of layering transparencies in set positions, we anchored each image to a specific variable associated with another image (i.e. the [...]
Artists’ Materials via the Brooklyn Museum API
For Programming A to Z last week, Adam asked us to get some XML from a web service and use it as input into one of our previous programs. I chose to work with the Brooklyn Museum’s API. In looking through an XML sample from their site, I was intrigued by the variety of artists’ [...]
InformationOverlord
Sometimes keeping up with all of the reading I’d like to do leaves me crushed by information overload, so for Programming A to Z this week I built a simple program to tell me whether or not I should bother reading a given document. Our assignment was to augment, modify, or replace one of our [...]
Use Desire as an Anchor
Over Spring Break we had two assignments to finish for Programming A to Z. The first was to modify, augment, or create a program based on our in-class examples of context-free grammars. I originally planned to create a grammar for walking– some sort of computer-generated dérive– but the weather hasn’t been particularly conducive to walking. [...]
Menagerie 2: A2z Midterm Code
This is the code for the main class of our creature-maker: import java.util.HashMap; HashMap words = new HashMap(); String[] lines; String oneLine; String animalName; PImage head;
Menagerie 2: A2Z Midterm
Bryan Lence and I developed a creature-maker for our Programming A to Z midterm. We based the program on a simple context-free grammar defining our animal structures, and applied that grammar to a Processing sketch based on Adam Parrish’s ContextFilter. Each click of the mouse while the sketch is running assembles a new animal assembled [...]
Markov’s Menagerie
This week’s assignment for Programming A to Z was to modify or augment our in-class example of a Markov chain. Somehow during class I got the idea to make a program that would create imaginary creatures by analyzing n-grams from a list of animals. I created a list of creatures from a medieval bestiary, and [...]
Succinct Scrivener
Imagine my surprise, nay, my consternation, when without moving from his privacy, Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, I would prefer not to. But in quite as clear a one came the previous reply, I would prefer not to. I would prefer not to, said he. I would prefer not to, he said, [...]
Jabberwookie
For Programming A to Z this week we were asked to use Java to create a text: Create a program (using, e.g., the tools presented in class) that behaves like a UNIX text processing program (such as cat, grep, tr, etc.). Your program should take text as input (any text, or a particular text of [...]
Peter Remixed
For Programming A to Z this week we were asked to use the command line in order to compose a text: Use a combination of the UNIX commands discussed in class (along with any other commands that you discover) to compose a text. Your “source code” for this assignment will simply consist of what you [...]