Realtime Alchemical and Calligraphic Video

Prof. Sha Xin Wei ¥ http://hybrid.concordia.ca/~xinwei/

http://hybrid.concordia.ca/~xinwei/classes/cs/COMP471_ComputerGraphics_RealtimeVideo/

References

Readings will be selected from this list of references. 

REFERENCES

 

Alchemy Web Site, archive of alchemical manuscripts, http://www.levity.com/alchemy/ .

Blinn, Jim. Dirty Pixels. (a collection of articles related to pixel processing; very easy to read and digest but surprisingly useful)

RECOMMENDED TEXT: A. Bovik et al., Handbook of Image and Video Processing (San Diego: Academic Press, 2000). ISBN: 0121197921

Graduate Alchemy and Calligraphic Video, COMP 671: Alchemical and Calligraphic Video Synthesis Class Projects, http://classes.hybrid.concordia.ca/%7Ecart_498_xin_wei/students.htm

Max, MSP (real-time sound) and Jitter (real-time video) References, Cycling74.com .
Newman, William R. Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature. University of Chicago Press, 2004. ISBN: 0226577120 (cloth).
Poynton, Charles. HDTV Algorithms and Interfaces.
Ramgopal Rajagopalan, OpenGL Tutorial, http://www.cs.concordia.ca/~r_rajago/graphics/tutorials/
Stam, Jos. "Flows on Surfaces of Arbitrary Topology", ACM Transactions On Graphics (TOG), Volume 22, Issue 3 (July 2003) : Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2003, 724-731.ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ
Topological Media Lab, Calligraphic video and gestural sound, http://topologicalmedia.concordia.ca/projects.html#calligraphicVideo, http://topologicalmedia.concordia.ca/projects.html#soundhttp://sponge.org
Wolberg, George. Digital Image Warping (good step by step explanation of signal processing and proper filtering).

 

ARTISTS

 

   
  Video Data Bank
http://www.vdb.org/
 

Studio Azzurro
http://www.studioazzurro.com/

  Nam June Paik
http://www.solwaygallery.com/Pages/paik.html
  Krzysztof Wodiczko
http://freespace.rca.ac.uk/show97/anne.htm
http://web.mit.edu/mit-cavs/www/kw.html
http://www.dds.nl/%7En5m/people/wodiczko.html
http://web.mit.edu/mit-cavs/www/DemilTech.html
  Ed Tannebaum
http://www.et-arts.com/
  David Rokeby
http://homepage.mac.com/davidrokeby/home.html
  Ken Rinaldo
http://www.cgrg.ohio-state.edu/~rinaldo/
 

Ken RinaldoÕs references: http://artandtech.osu.edu/551/au04_stelarc/Artists%20RESOURCES.html

 

Stephen Wilson's references: http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~swilson/

 

Bill Viola
http://babel.massart.edu/%7Efloyd/words6.html

 

Steina and Woody Vasulka
http://www.biennale-de-lyon.org/biac95/fr/artistes/vasulka.htm
http://www.c3.hu/scca/butterfly/Vasulkas/cv.html
http://beatthief.com/three/woody/index.html

Steina and Woody Vasulka, Daniel Langlois Foundation archive

  Gary Hill
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/%7Eruag//98S/ghill/GHaboutex.html
  Fabrizio Plessi
http://www.solwaygallery.com/Pages/plessi.html
  Stan Douglas
http://dialnsa.edu/iat97/Sculpture/douglas.html
  Jim Campbell, http://www.jimcampbell.tv/
  Tony Ousler
http://www.thekitchen.org/MovieCatalog/Directors/Oursler.html
http://www.revolutn.com/archive/ours/01.htm
http://www.williams.edu/WCMA/exhibitions/oursler/intro.html
  Michael Naimark
http://cavs.mit.edu/seminar/mas879/archive/bios/naimark.html
http://sfgate.com/eguide/profile/arc97/1097naimark-profile.shtml
  Daniel Shiffman, http://www.shiffman.net/index.html
 

Camille Utterback
http://fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~camille/

  John Maeda, computational graphics
  Golan Levin, http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/golan/
  Scott Snibbe, http://www.snibbe.com/index.html
  Ben Frye, Casey Reas http://www.groupc.net/
 

Luc Courchesne
http://www.din.umontreal.ca/courchesne/contenan.html
http://panoscope360.com/descriptionen.html

(Hall of Shadows, Landscape One, Panoscopic Journal), http://www.din.umontreal.ca/courchesne/

  Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Body Movies and Various Projects), http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/at/rlh/eproyecto.html
  Perry Hoberman (various projects), http://www.perryhoberman.com/
  Yutaka Sone
http://dialnsa.edu/iat97/Sculpture/sone.html
  Bill Seaman
http://cavs.mit.edu/seminar/mas879/archive/bios/seaman.html
  Mary Lucier
http://www.art.nnov.ru/crosscurrents/lucier.html
  Douglas Gordon
http://dialnsa.edu/iat97/Sculpture/gordon.html
  Diana Thater
http://dialnsa.edu/iat97/Sculpture/thater.html
   
   
Visualization
  Fernanda Viegas, History Flow, http://web.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/
   
Algorithmic
  Karl Sims, http://www.genarts.com/karl/
  Roman Verostko, http://www.dam.org/verostko/index.htm
Old time animators  
  Hans Richter RHYTHM 21, 1921
  Walter Ruttman OPUS I, 1921
 

Oskar Fischinger "absolute animation

  Berthold Bartosch, "The Idea" 1932,
  Viking Eggeling,  DIAGONAL SYMPHONIE 1925
   
Rhythm and Light archives  
  http://rhythmiclight.com/archives/sites.html
Experimental Animation  
  NFB animated shorts online:
http://www.nfb.ca/animation/objanim/en/films/index.php
  Gorilllaz, 19-2000 ; Live Concert Clint Eastwood
  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0306803143/104-3938388-4599123?v=glance&n=283155


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