Creative Computing

Joel Gethin Lewis

Week 3: Lecture 6: Objects

Group meditation.
Questions?
Object-oriented programming.
Fuzzy logic, Computer Vision, Neural Networks, Adam Harvey, Bias and Anti-Fascist AI.
Feedback.
Homework Assignment - exercises from Code as Creative Medium - Graphic Elements.

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All questions allowed!
2 minutes alone on post it notes, then double group size every 1 minutes until it's the whole group.
This idea came from Zach Lieberman. He does this exercise at the start of every session of School of Poetic Computation in New York.

Abstraction is a concept that has been applied to many fields, including art and computer science.
Abstraction is a key feature of object orientated programming. Object orientated coding allows you to combine logic and data into one place.
C++ is an example of an object orientated language. C was one of its predecessors and functional. The ++ means increment, hence C++ being one better than C. (-;
Let's take a look at the p5.js object orientated examples. Let's start with the Objects example.
There are many different ways of programming, also known as paradigms.
Two amusing languages are Brainfuck and Whitespace, there are many other Esoteric languages. (-;

Fuzzy logic is a logic where results be other numbers between 0 and 1 - rather than one or the other. It's very useful for controlling systems which are analogue, like a washing machine.
Computer vision in computer science is the study of making computers able to understand images or video.
See this Edge.org article on Hidden Layers for an explanation of how biological research directly influenced the creation of Artifical Neural Networks, a key part of modern Machine Learning. Computerphile video on what Deep Learning is. Another Computerphile video on Convolutional Neural Networks and what makes them SO special.
t-SNE is a machine learning technique for collapsing multidimensional data into two or three dimensions - simply put, a great way of visualising a set of images and their relationship to each other.

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