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

Homework 05. Assigned Thursday February 05, 2:00 mm

Due via email to abraham@vismath.org, Wednesday February 011, by 8 am.

A. Read Gene Youngblood's "John Whitney: Composing an image of time",

[ PDF, 6 MB ], or [ RTF, 45 MB ], or [ TXT, 97 KB ].

There may well be a short quiz on this in Meeting #6.

B. Explore [ fractal-notes.org ]

Find a favorite fractal image and a favorite fractal movie and report them in your email.

C. Learning NetLogo.

Download [ play-image-02.nlogo ]

Modify the model to use your own 6 images.

Modify your images to have transparent backgrounds if you can.

HINT: Browse online for "image transparency" to find several useful web apps.

Make a 1 to 10 second video of playing a song with your model.

HINT: The easiest way is to use a cell phone.

Submit your NetLogo model and your video (hopefully less than 2 MB) via email.