Algorithmic Research at GSAPP
A few current projects from ‘Search – Advanced Algorithmic Design’, a six week intensive seminar in the visual studies sequence at the Columbia GSAPP, taught by Mark Collins & Toru Hasegawa of Proxy. The seminar looks at object-oriented programming and visual/spatial research within the open-source platform of Processing. A video of the class work can be seen here.
Space Filling Agent
Luca Fareinelli & Juan-Luis Valderrabano-Monanes
The agent actively explores space, slowly filling out a pre-determined volume. Employing brownian motion or a “random walk”, the agent checks its movement against an array of bounding volumes, changing direction if it moves outside of these zones. The agent also includes a set of constraints, including forbidding double backing and other problematic moves. The results is a dense network of randomized structure and circulation, an “implicit” architecture.
Tension Cube
Jennifer Joyce Tan & Chukuyemeze Edozie
The tension cube explores spring dynamics through an implementation of the Traer Physics library. The goal is to use time-based physical modeling to produced optimzed path and spatial subdivision within a given unit of space. The mesh is operated on through time, both to create new riggings as well as to prune unhelpful connections. As the spring network relaxes into shape, the algorithm maps geometry onto contiguous areas of optimized edges.
Waveform Landscapes
John Locke & Lauren Zucker
A data-mapping project, this algorithm takes a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) of two sound samples to produce a space that is contoured by the play between waves. The waves represent a contiguous history of sound – new information is loaded into a dynamic stack, creating a constantly evolving forward movement in the landscape.
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