UCSC: Porter 34B, Chaos, Fractals, and the Arts, Winter 2015

Meeting 01. Th 1/08


Overview

  • Three threads of the course
    • A. Art history and prehistory
    • B. Basic chaos theory
    • C. Comupter programming for the arts
  • Student work (grading basis)
    • A. Art history reading and writing
    • B. Chaos theory and fractal experiments
    • C. NetLogo tutorials and modeling
    • P. Term project planning (begins midterm)

Lecture #1

  • A. Prehistory (The entheogenic hypothesis)
  • B. Chaos theory (The stairway to chaos, installing NetLogo 5.1.0, the logistic family)
  • C. NetLogo (Browsing its Models Library)

Homework #1


Revised 14 Jan 2015 by Ralph