Week 1: Hello World
Monday, September 29th Overview
Class Introduction:
Review of Syllabus, Code of Conduct, and Schedule
Zach Lieberman's Question Exercise,
Slide deck -- What questions brought you to the room?
Introduce mini assignment and first project
To Do before Wednesday's Class:
Fill out the course registration survey
Reading and Reflection
Color Builder: A Direct Manipulation Interface for Versatile Color Theme Authoring by Shugrina et al.
Create a slide on the Reflection Slide Deck and add your response
Complete Mini Assignment 1- consider using colors generated with Color Builder in your assignment
Wednesday, October 1st Overview
Reading Discussion- Leader Jennifer
Quick Share of Mini face assignment results
What distinctions do you notice between faces created with code, created by hand, and created with LLMs?
Computational Interfaces for Creative Expression -- Color Selection
Overview of mini p5.js color pickers and color explorers
Examples on GithubIn class activity: with a partner- select a color example in the class GitHub and spend 10 minutes experimenting with it and modifying the code in one or more of the following ways:
alter the overal range of possible colors
the ways the user can select colors
the grouping of specific colors
Once complete, we will ask for volunteers to share their results.
Other examples of color tools and resources:
Programming Design Systems, Rune Madsen
Resembles the approach in many paint, drawing, and design tools
Kimiko Ryokai's I/O Brush (2004)
CHI paper on ACM Digital Library
Playful Palette by Masha Shugrina et al.
SIGGRAPH paper on ACM Digital Library
Color Builder by Masha Shugrina et al.
Tauba Aurerbach's RGB Colorspace Atlas (2011)
Enables constraining colors across different rule sets- i.e triad, monochromatic, complementary etc.
The Color Project at IFP Media Center by MPC New York
Created by MPC New York in collaboration with artist Thompson Harrell, ‘The Color Project’ explores narratives through colour, line, and form found in geographic satellite imagery. Utilizing Google Earth together with custom software, the install spans over 27 HD screens pointing locations of the films that have been produced by IFP.
Ghita Jalal, Nolwenn Maudet and Wendy E. Mackay's Color Portraits (2015) CHI paper on ACM Digital Library
Video Demonstration on Vimeo
To Do before Monday's Class:
Upload first assignment to github if not yet completed
Sign up for a reading reflection leader slot. See the reading list on the schedule page
Complete mini assignment 2.