Description

Write the source code (with comments) for an applet that will experiment and express a new way of regarding aesthetics based on a computer program (algorithms) and human intervention (mouse events).
The project should use as much as possible of the code provided so far in the course.
Here are some suggestions:

Read a DXF file from formZ, modify its geometry in your proposed program and them send it back to formZ for rendering.
Create an algorithm that will draw text on the screen and place it into configurations that are related to external forces (gravity, attraction, etc.) based on the mouse movement.
Develop a simple computer game that will display a drawing by “tracing” the game process.

Feel free to proposed anything else but you must propose something by next Wednesday.

Note: We expect your project to be related to your area of study, that is, for architects something architectural, for painters something based on the process of painting, and so on.

Zip your project and source files and call it yourNames.zip (yourNames is a variable for our last name or the two partners’ last names).
Send a brief e-mail to sunp@ucla.edu explaining what you did, include the URL address of where your applet is posted and attach the zipped project.
Print out a (color) copy of your work and of your source code.

For the final presentation:

Make a presentation sheet 36x48 (in Illustrator or attach by hand) and put images and printouts of your second project (mathematical image) and the last final project.
Include source code, images, descriptions and anything else that you feel that will convey enough information to the audience. The sheets will be hanged in the CDA and AUD walls.
Do not forget to include your names.

Deadlines:

Proposal (in class): Wednesday November 29, 2000 (=Alpha version)

Final due (in class): Wednesday December 6, 2000 (= beta version)

Presentation due (in CDA): Wednesday December 13, 2000 [12:30-2:00 pm] (= final release version)