2006W





MAT 256 Visual Design Through Algorithms:
Explorations in Visual Perception (4 units)


Instructors: Jerry Gibson, George Legrady
TA: Will Wolcott

e-studio, Art Department, 2nd floor
Tues 1pm-2pm
Thurs 12pm-3pm




Course Description
  team-taught course with goals to foster engineering-level research in conjunction with the experimental approach of the visual arts. Course consists of lectures, some readings, and team-based production of 3 multimedia projects that explore mathematical visual processes, interactivity and visual perception. Due to the inter-disciplinary nature of the course, students will be expected to work in small artist-engineer teams, to achieve meaningful results in both Engineering and the Arts
       

W1 Course Overview

Student Work

ENG JG

ART GL

  Filtering, sampling, digitization, and reconstruction of media

Interdisciplinarity, art research, course & project goals

Visual FFT Lab


W2
  Frequency Domain


ENG JG

ART GL

Frequency domain representations. Nyquist Theorem

Methods of visual organization, Visual Processes

Visual FFT Lab


W3

Ramdoness & Information


ENG JG

ART GL


Randomness, entropy, and information;random walks

Information & Art







Keylogging Visualization
Microtubules and FFTs:A connotation/denotation mix
Splitting Up FFT

Visual FFT Presentation


W4

Randomness


ENG JG

ART GL


Reading

Autoregressive and moving average models, Markov chains, and memory
Function of metaphor | Time based models
Camera tracking demo

Image Processing of the Shroud of Turin

Randomness Proj


W5

Perception


ENG JG

ENG JG


Perceptual distortion and models for human perception

Hypothesis testing and detection theory

Randomness Proj


W6

Information, Visual Language


ENG JG

ART GL


How much information is in an image?

Visual language: Syntax & Semiotics






Leveling the Color Field
The Problem with Noise
Dancer Position and Markov Chains

Randomness Presentation


W7

Noise


ART GL



Artistic Experimentation Process

Final Project Planning

Final Proj Lab


W8

Research & Digital Media






Final Project Planning

Initial Concept Presentation

Final Proj Lab


W9

Thurs
Project Team Production / Individual Consultation

Work in Progress Presentation



W10

Project Team Production / Individual Consultation



EXAM

Final Project Presentation




Social Sonification
Dance Dance Revolution and Markov Probability
The Well




Links

Telematic Drum Circle
Paul DeMarinis
Jeff Han, NYU Media Research Lab
Marie Sester
Ned Kahn
Luc Courchesne
SSUM Matlab Demo