Learning Objectives

Students will be able to:

Practice analyzing form in detail
Practice identifying common tactics in programming
Practice developing strategies for procedural generation
Practice reverse engineering procedural generation approaches
Explore some common methods for aesthetically arranging points on a plane
Consider the difference between learning to program and learning a programming language.

Time	Duration	Purpose	Format	Name
9:00	40	Activate	Discussion	Sketch Review
9:40	20	Activate	Activity	What's the Difference?
10:00	20	Study	Lecture	Key Points
10:20	10			Break
10:30	20	Activate	Activity	Tactics Match
10:50	20	Study	Discussion	Q+A
11:10	10	Util		Next Week
11:20	20	Study	Live-Code	Challenge Solutions
11:40				End

Sketch Review

<aside> 🧟 1) Discuss your question. 2) Look for related sketches from the past week. 3) Answer your question using a related sketch to illustrate your points. 4) Add your key points and a link to your selected sketch below. 5) Share your screen to present and discuss your question, answer, and related sketch.

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Choose a common theme that has appeared in several pieces. Discuss the theme and two example sketches.

3D theme

Parameters let you interact more with the object along x, y, and z axes
Experience 3D more with help of parameters → see perspective when interacting

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Choose a work that you feel used parameters very well. Why did you choose this piece?

Olivier’s Code:

https://compform.net/js_lab/js_lab.html?https://sketches2022spring.compform.net/posts/ofCd7fvfXQ7EXCSpj/code
Choose a work that you like and don’t know how it was made. Describe what you see.
- a pale pale pink colored blob made of lines and money signs
- this is surrounded by a dark background made from the same texture
- below the pink blob are white / red / and blue patches reminiscent of the lapels / tie / collar of someone wearing a suit
What benefits does starting with a plan have?
1. Face generator: we feel that everyone probably planned what they want to create.
  1. What do we want to draw? What do we want to change? Image (drawn) constraints - such as position we want on the 500 by 500 canvas.
  2. What do we want to have change?
  3. What is the aesthetic?
  4. preload(){}
  5. Would have a clear goal finding solutions.
2. More efficient coding, do not have to go back and fix image assets later
What benefits does starting without a plan have?