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Video recordings of the lecture: Video 1
Video recordings of the lecture: Video 2
Video recordings of the lecture: Video 3

Introduction

Readings

• Rucker, Rudy. “The Wolfram Physics Project.” Rudy Rucker’s Blog (blog). Accessed April 24, 2020. http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2020/04/22/the-wolfram-physics-project/.

Comprehensive list of all the "decoding nature" algorithms:

• Muhonen, Taru, and Raphaël de Courville. ‘Creative Coding Algorithms & Techniques’. Notion. Accessed 6 April 2021. https://www.notion.so/Creative-coding-algorithms-techniques-c5550ef2f7574126bdc77b09ed76651b .

Tips for generative art:

• Hobbs, Tyler. ‘Tips to Improve Your Generative Artwork’, 21 January 2018. https://tylerxhobbs.com/essays/2018/tips-to-improve-your-generative-artwork?format=amp&__twitter_impression=true.
• ___ . ‘Color Arrangement in Generative Art’, 8 February 2021. https://tylerxhobbs.com/essays/2021/color-arrangement-in-generative-art?format=amp&__twitter_impression=true.

... and a current report on art and technology:

• National Endowment for the Arts. ‘Tech as Art: Supporting Artists Who Use Technology as a Creative Medium’, 2021 https://www.arts.gov/about/publications/tech-art-supporting-artists-who-use-technology-creative-medium.
• ___ (Ed.), Vanessa Chang, Agnes Chavez, Megan Elliott, Ari Melenciano, Stephanie Pereira, Omari Rush, et al. Tech as Art: Commissioned Essays from Arts Practitioners, 2021. https://www.arts.gov/impact/arts-technology-field-scan/essays.

Studio

All code files can be found here: https://github.com/jbenno/nyuad_decoding_nature/tree/master/Files/01

Setting up things:

• Basic html, JavaScript, and p5.js (resp. Processing)
• https://editor.p5js.org

The first example

• Recreating a work by Saskia Freeke as seen on the kadenze-blog

Pseudo random number generators and chaotic feedback processes. Some examples:

• Simple Linear Congruential Generator
• Demo for the chaotic feedback process in the LGC
• Illustrating the chaotic sequence of the LGC on a clock face
• xorshift+
• Application: Random walks
  • Simplest code example
  • Random walker with a custom pseudo random number generator (PRNG) instead of the JavaScript random() function.

Chaos and cryptography: Elliptic curves

• Elliptic curve chaos demo

Chaos: The logistic map

• Logistic map demonstrating attractors
• Logistic map - now we allow a long phasing-in so that we can actually see the attractors
• The bifurcation plot showing the chaotic attractors