1. VART3227
Evolutionary Graphics
Class 01 - Introduction

2. Teacher
Bryan Chung
chungbwc@hkbu.edu.hk
http://www.magicandlove.com

3. Students’ works
What have we done in last few years?

4. Ng Ka Ho

5. Xu Jia

6. Aurelie

7. Chan Po Fung

8. Chiu Tsz Ki

9. Heung Ting Ting

10. Gina Leung

11. Ng Ka Ho

12. Carrie Yeung

13. Yuen Man Hei

14. Abby

15. Apple Ng

16. Christy Chan

17. Chu Cho Kwan

18. Ip Wing Yin

19. Sylvia Cheung

20. Example

21. Example

22. Example

23. Course introduction
Theory and practice
Computer workshop
Sketching of everyday material
Inspiration for artistic creation

24. Assignments
Visual documentation
Generative graphics
Procedural animation
In-class exercises

25. Assessment
Visual aesthetics
Creativity
Application of knowledge
Complexity in development
Professionalism

26. Context free art

27. Touch Designer

28. Introduction
History of visual imagery
Computer graphics
Mathematics & geometry
Ideas of complexity
Hand-on with Context Free Art

29. Terms
Evolutionary
Artificial
Generative
Algorithmic
Computational
Genetic

30. From nature

31. From nature

32. From nature

33. From nature

34. From nature

35. From nature

36. From nature

37. From nature

38. From nature

39. From nature

40. From nature

41. Visual imagery in nature
Rock, sand, mineral
Water, wave, ripple
Smoke, flame, fire
Plant
Shell
Flock of birds

42. Drawing and painting
Figurative/representational
Abstraction
Pure geometry
Machine aesthetics

43. Still life photography

44. Still life painting

45. Still life painting

46. Still life painting

47. Photography

48. Painting

49. Pointillism

50. Minimalism

51. Geometric art

52. Photo renderings

53. Photo renderings

54. Charles O. Perry

55. Jean Tinguely

56. Types of arts
Autographic art
Allographic art
The Language of Art, Nelson Goodman

57. Autographic art

58. Allographic art

59. Allographic art

60. How we create art
Painters  paint  paintings
Composers  compose  scores
Musicians  perform  music

61. Tools
Drawings with tools and machines
Is it art?

62. Tools

63. Drawing tools

64. Drawing tools

65. Computer drawings

66. Computer drawings

67. Computer drawings

68. Sine wave drawings

69. Sine wave drawings

70. Sine wave drawings

71. Sine wave drawings

72. Particle drawings

73. Particle drawings

74. Particle drawings

75. Particle drawings

76. John Maeda

77. Casey Reas

78. Golan Levin

79. Ben Fry

80. Mark Napier

81. Martin Wattenberg

82. Joshua Davis

83. Drawing with automation
The fundamentals

84. Geometry

85. Example – Golden Section

86. Example – Golden Section

87. Spiral shell

88. Koch curve – fractals

89. Another snowflake

90. Geometry

91. Computer drawing

92. Computer painting
Direct manipulation interface hides away all the
mathematics and codes of implementations.

93. Computer drawing

94. Computer drawing
The mathematics is revealed in this interface.

95. Computer graphics
We need to have something to describe the visual
imagery we want to draw/paint.
It is a kind of grammar or language.

96. Co-ordinate geometry

97. Computer animation
In the second part of the course, we shall do
animation exercises in this direction.

98. On generative art

99. Karl Sims - Particle dreams

100. William Latham

101. Karl Sims

102. Craig Reynolds – a flock of birds (boids)

103. L-System – artificial plant