week 2

Sorry for the late posting. The next Workshop will take place this Friday and Saturday (25 and 26/4). The content will be as follows:

Friday 13:00 (day 1):

- Presentation from those who got interesting results from the proposed exercises
- Quick introduction on Stochastic Search
- In-class exercises: splines and sequential gradients

In this day the students will start to finally use their own imagination to create something using the topics covered so far.

Saturday 10:00 (day2):

- Multi-booleans
- Fractals
- Cellular Automata
- Morphing

On this day we'll give continuity to the content, introducing new capabilities of scripting.

Those of you who did not attend the first class and wish to attend tomorrow, should have Maya 8.5 or later already installed, and the setup already made. For instructions, check the ppt from the last class.

week 1

On this first day of workshop, the following topics will be covered:

1. Setting up
1. scripts folder
2. environmental variables
3. maya.env
2. Scripting basics
1. Variables
2. Operations
3. Loops
4. Lists (arrays)
5. Geometrical objects and transformations
6. Sequential transformations
7. Multi-booleans

This first series of exercises are based on Kostas Terzidis's book Algorithmic Architecture. It aims at giving a brief introduction to scripting, demonstrating its capabilities and opening room for explorations on your own.

Depending on the time we take on this first part, I'll start to introduce other aspects as a follow up, such as stochastic search, fractals, cellular automata and morphing (hybridzation).

The only requirement is to have Maya already installed in your computer. It is also recommended the installation of one of the editors cited on the previous post.

The lecture will take place on:

Thursday, 17th April 2008
13:00
DIA - Building 8 (room still to be defined)