Design by numbers / John Maeda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maeda, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer programming.

Computer graphics.

Physical Description:

255 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1999.

Summary:

Most art and technology projects pair artists with engineers or scientists: the artist has the conception, and the technical person provides the know-how. John Maeda is an artist and a computer scientist, and he views the computer not as a substitute for brush and paint but as an artistic medium in its own right. Design by Numbers is a reader-friendly tutorial on both the philosophy and nuts-and-bolts techniques of programming for artists.

Practicing what he preaches, Maeda composed Design by Numbers using a computational process he developed specifically for the book. He introduces a programming language and development environment, available on the Web, which can be freely downloaded or run directly within any JAVA-enabled Web browser. Appropriately, the new language is called DBN (for "design by numbers"). Designed for "visual" people -- artists, designers, anyone who likes to pick up a pencil and doodle -- DBN has very few commands and consists of elements resembling those of many other languages, such as LISP, LOGO, C/JAVA, and BASIC.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0262133547

OCLC:

39875123