===== Intro to IM =====
**Place:** Inside the teaching lab that is hidden somewhere deep in the Arts Center\\
**Time:** Wednesday, October 12, 2016, 2:40pm – 5:20pm 

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=== Forword ===
  * Downloading Processing!
  * Checking attendance

=== Structure ===
Todays lecture will be about //Drawing shapes, using the cursor to draw.//

  - Brief summary… (Felix). 
  - Overview of way computer thinks (logically, mathematically, precisely) (Felix/James)
  - Drawing: how to create a simple drawing (James)
      - Intro to coordinate systems
      - Drawing
      - Reference
      - Fill & Stroke
      - In Class Exercise: Draw a character
  - Animation: how to make a ball move and bounce (James)
      - Movement (Follow mouse)
      - Movement (Without mouse)
      - Bouncing &| wrapping
      - In Class Exercise: Bounce off all walls
  - (Optional) Mousepressed Interactions (James):
      - if(mousepressed){}
  - Some more processing examples (Felix)


=== Links ===
  * Casey Reas: http://reas.com/information
  * Ben Fry http://benfry.com/about/
  * Daniel Shiffman http://shiffman.net/about/ (Associate Arts Professor at ITP at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.)

  * Feld Studio  => http://feld.is/projects/pigmentpol/
  * Jens Wunderling (Studio Syntop) => http://jenswunderling.com/works/poetry-on-the-road-2014/
  * Studio TheGreen  => http://www.thegreeneyl.com/mit-media-lab-identity
  * Studio Nand  => http://www.nand.io
  * Christian Riekoff  => http://www.riekoff.com/#/botanicus-interacticus/
  * Andreas Nicolas Fischer => http://anf.nu


=== Homework ===

== Assignment ==
  * Make a Rocket Ship with the appearance of Motion
  * Watch [[https://vimeo.com/45851523|Casey Reas’ Eyeo talk on chance operations]]
  * Watch [[http://hello.processing.org|Episode 1, "Hello," of Dan Shiffman's Hello Processing]]

== Readings ==
  * Processing pp 127-140
  * Processing Ch 3-7
  * [[http://www.wired.com/2015/10/margaret-hamilton-nasa-apollo/|Her Code Got Humans on the Moon]]
  * https://programmingdesignsystems.com/shape/figure-and-ground/

== Resources ==
  * Lost? [[http://hello.processing.org| Hello Processing]] will refresh you on what we did in class!
  * Want more? [[https://processing.org/tutorials|These Tutorials]] will help take you to the next level