Schedule

Part 1: Deluge of (mostly) essential information

Day 0 (2015.9.28)

• Karl and Tim introduce themselves
• Introduction to the AlloSphere, the AlloSystem, and the course.
• Show previous class projects
• Student introductions
• Review syllabus
• Install the software for this course
• Assign Homework 0
• Brief AlloSphere tour/demo

Day 1 (2015.9.30)

• Review Homework 0
• Run this collect system information script and follow the instructions to mail the resulting file to Tim:
  curl http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/fishuyo/collect_system_information.command | perl
• Install documentation tools
• Building and using the AlloCore documentation (doxygen)
• git clone the course materials repo (syllabus, starter code, lessons...)
• Building an interactive audiovisual program part 1

Day 2 (2015.10.05)

• Building an interactive audiovisual program part 2
• git clone your own personal submission repo and push a README file to it
• Assign Homework 1

Day 3 (2015.10.07)

• Building an interactive audiovisual program part 3

Day 4 (2015.10.12)

• Time is always sampled discretely in digital systems
• Representing position and velocity with vectors
• Physics
• By approximating physics with a finite time step in the "obvious" way we're using the Euler method
• Anything else you need to know for Homework 1.

Day 5 (2015.10.14)

• Review Homework 1
• Assign Homework 2
• Color spaces and metrics: RGB, HSV, etc.

• Many ways to "choose a random color"

• Reflection: Randomness within a given range; perceptual issues in choosing this range

Day 6 (2015.10.19)

• Basics of reading and writing image and sound files
• Managing images on the GPU (textures and some basic ways of using them)
• What is a sound pixel?
• Sound metrics: energy (RMS), spectral centroid (brightness), fundamental frequency estimation, onset detection, features

Day 7 (2015.10.21)

• build-up to homework 2, problem 1 starter code (noisy pixels)

Day 8 (2015.10.26)

A series of granular synthesis examples.

Day 9 (2015.10.28)

• Review Homework 2, problem 1 and associated concepts and techniques
• Assign Homework 3

Day 10 (2015.11.02)

Catch-up

Interactive App Basics: Window, Input (QWERTY, OSC, GLV)

Part 2: Final projects focus and advanced topics

Topics to be scheduled:

• Optimization (Compiler flags, Inner loop...)
• Networking (Sockets, UDP/TCP, OSC...)
• Rendering full-surround video (e.g., in the AlloSphere)
• AlloSphere in detail: interactivity, video, and audio systems, multi-user considerations, etc.
• Adapting (AlloSphere) content for installations, galleries, laptops, web, mobile devices...

• Parallel programming is a lot like revision control

  1. Simplest mechanism by far (none): only one line of development (regular files on disk, single-reader/single-writer FIFO)
  2. Reserve resource in advance (RCS, thread locks/semaphores...)
  3. Concurrent editing: handle contention on write (CVS)
  4. Atomic (all or nothing) writes (SVN, OSC bundle semantics)
  5. Every working directory is a repo; embracing branches and merging (Git, message passing)

• Quaternions, Pose

• Revision Control and Source Code Management

• Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)

Several guest lectures to be scheduled:

• Pablo Colapinto: Geometric Algebra
• Karl Yerkes: Cuttlefish (display cluster)

Day 11 (2015.11.04)

• Review Homework 3
• Assign Homework 4

Day 12 (2015.11.09)

• Code walk-thru and demonstration of an OSC example, using Max and Pure Data to control an al::App.
• Code walk-thru and demonstration of an al::AudioScene example.

HOLIDAY (2015.11.11)

Day 13 (2015.11.16)

Day 14 (2015.11.18)

• Reviewing final project progress

• Review Homework 4

Day 15 (2015.11.23)

Day 16 (2015.11.25)

Day 17 (2015.11.30)

Day 18 (2015.12.02) (Last official day of class)

Final project presentations Friday, December 11, 2-5pm