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Video recordings of the lecture - Part a: Generative Art
Video recordings of the lecture - Part b: Particle Systems

Generative Art

Here you find the artists discussed and a few more: Generative Art

• Galanter, Philip. “What Is Generative Art? Complexity Theory as a Context for Art Theory,” 2003. http://philipgalanter.com/downloads/ga2003_what_is_genart.pdf.
• Tate Gallery. “Generative Art.” In Tate’s Online Glossary. Accessed July 19, 2020. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/g/generative-art.

Particle Systems

First description of the concept:

• Reeves, W. T. “Particle Systems—a Technique for Modeling a Class of Fuzzy Objects.” ACM Transactions on Graphics 2, no. 2 (April 1, 1983): 91–108. https://doi.org/10.1145/357318.357320.

First implementation:

• Meyer, Nicholas. Genesis Sequence - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, 1982. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnziufszqSE&feature=youtu.be.

Galaxy formation:

• Spinrad, Hyron. Galaxy Formation and Evolution. Springer-Praxis Books in Astrophysics and Astronomy. Berlin ; New York : Chichester, UK: Springer ; Published in association with Praxis Pub, 2005.
• Cen, Renyue. “Movie of AMR Galaxy Formation.” Accessed June 28, 2020. https://www.astro.princeton.edu/~cen/AMR_GalaxyFormation-2.mp4.

Studio

All code files can be found here: https://github.com/jbenno/nyuad_decoding_nature/tree/master/Files/04

Example Code

• Elastic collision
• Brownian motion demo with colliding particles
• Galaxy formation with particles

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