Interactive Digital Art

COMP 4640 Homework #7Fall 2008

Martin Lindsey

Some of the Categories include…

• Digital Art• Interactive Art• Interactive Video• Internet Art• New Media Art

Fractals

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

delbrot_set.jpg

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

Algorithmic Art

• Algorists used plotters to illustrate their output

• Used random or psuedo-random processes to produce variability

Early Pioneers

Frieder Nake A. Michael Noll

George Nees

Animation

CGI – Computer Generated Imagery

3D Graphics

Internet ArtA genre used by “net artists”

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

Internet ArtIncludes online video, audio and radio

Interactive Video• Applied on

broadband , computer games and cinema

• The technique blends interaction and linear film or video http://www.barbariangroup.com/

Gaming

William Higinbotham’s

Tennis for Two on an oscilloscope from

1958

Programmers and graphic designers

create today’s popular games such

as Ghost Recon

Languages• Java – web applets and GUI’s from COMP 1210• Processing – used for creative coding and

computational art• GML – Geography Markup Language