UCSC: Porter 34B, Chaos, Fractals, and the Arts, Spring 2011

Meeting 02. Th 4/07

  • Preliminaries, 15 min
    • Film by Oskar Fischinger: Mmotion Painting #1, 1947, 11 min
    • Oskar Biobib
    • Quiz #1, 5 min
    • Tour of our website
    • Results of HW #1
  • A. Prehistory of Abstract Animation
    • A1. Deep Time Slide Show (click anywhere to advance the slide)
      • Ethnography
      • Shamanism, contemporary
      • Demography of shallow time
      • Discovery of Deep time, the painted caves
    • A2. The Painted Caves and Geometric Thinking (assignment)
      • Shamanism hypothesis, Paleolithic, rites in the caves
      • Psychedelic hypothesis
      • Signs
  • B. Chaos Theory
  • C. Computer Programming
    • C1. NetLogo 4.1.2, your first model
    • C2. HTML and your website
    • D. Discussion

Homework
Revised 05 April 2011 by Ralph