Algorithmic Research at GSAPP, ctd.
Selected projects from the Fall 2008 semester’s ‘Search – Advanced Algorithmic Design’ seminar, a six week intensive seminar in the visual studies sequence at the Columbia GSAPP, taught by Mark Collins & Toru Hasegawa of Proxy. The seminar examines object-oriented problem solving and visual/spatial research within the open-source platform Processing. A video of this class’ work can be seen here.
Agent Ecosystem
Marcelo Najera & Ignacio Senra
The project plays out a simple relationship with active agents and a passive environment. Showing a build-up of intensity through time, this algorithm grew out of a desire to paint ‘proceduraly’. Agents are attracted to static nodes, but are frustrated by momentum to map directly onto these points. The result is a constantly convecting set of particles, which push values into the nodes as they pass by.
Adaptive Latticework
Chi-Chen Yang & Michael Casey Rehm
A flocking system is employed to convect a series of particles through space. The particles activate a latent organizational system, giving weight and tectonic thickness to a series of elements. This lattice ‘degrades’ over time, needing frequent visitation by the agents to become more robust. Both the elements and agents are written in the same object-oriented framework, essentially ‘messaging’ each other to produce the dynamic growth cycle of the lattice.
Glob Packing
Adrian Smith & Mathew Staudt
A complex mesh is built up over time through a continuous aggregation of new elements. ‘Globs’ are the names given to provisional spring networks, which then disappear into the macro network of the mesh on contact. The movement of each mesh member is tracked to look for emergent patterns. A video of this algorithm can be seen here.
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