imclab/self-organization_by_design_i

Self-Organization by Design I

This is the Repo of Self-Organisation by Design (SOBD) – Part I
It contains processing sketches and exercises for the workshop at Bauhaus-Uni Weimar.

Topics

1. Elementary Cellular Automata
2. Two-Dimensional Cellular Automata
3. Cellular Automata and Beyond
4. Flow-fields and Fluids
5. Particles and Swarms

Special Feature

Feat. the BitGrid Library

Libraries

Processing modes and libraries we will explore

Modes + Libs	Description
Tweak-Mode	Visual Mode for tweaking the parameters of a sketch
PDE X	Experimental mode with code-completion
PeasyCam	3D camera library by Jonathan Feinberg
BitGrid	Library for working with triangular and hexagonal grids

Concepts

• Deterministic vs Random Systems
• Discrete vs Continuous Systems
• Computing Space vs Computing Agents