Interactive Digital ArtCOMP 4640 Homework #7

Fall 2008Martin Lindsey

Digital ArtInteractive ArtInteractive VideoInternet ArtNew Media Art

Some of the Categories include…

Fractals

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mandel_zoom_00_man

delbrot_set.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Von_Koch_curve.gif

Algorists used plotters to illustrate their output

Used random or psuedo-random processes to produce variability

Algorithmic Art

Frieder Nake

Early Pioneers

A. Michael Noll

George Nees

CGI – Computer Generated Imagery

Animation

3D Graphics

A genre used by “net artists”Internet Art

Some of the works of Thomas Briggshttp://www.salientimages.com/

Includes online video, audio and radioInternet Art

• Applied on broadband, computer games and cinema

• The technique blends interaction and linear film or video

Interactive Video

http://www.barbariangroup.com/

William Higinbotham’s Tennis for Two on an

oscilloscope from 1958

Gaming

Programmers and graphic designers create today’s popular games such as Ghost Recon

Java web applets

and GUI’s from COMP 1210

Languages

Processing used for creative

coding and computational

artGML

Geography Markup

Language

OpenGL Open

Graphics Language