CSD 340: The Week beginning Jan. 17

• Reading:
  Chapter 1 in Beginning JavaScript

• Homework:
  • Create at least three distinct geometric patterns/designs in HTML code. Post them to your space on the alpha (ask if you don't know how) and send me the link(s) in an email. Here are some of my examples: grid.htm, grid2.htm, grid3.htm, grid4.htm, and GridLayoutLayers.htm
    • Motivation: If one has a very regular pattern with predictable variations, then it can be coded with JavaScript as in CodedDesign.htm. Compare the code of this file to the previous files. The hope is that this will motivate some to learn about loops, functions and so on. JavaScript allows one's designs to become dynamic as in CodedDesign2.htm, CodedDesign3.htm, CodedDesign4.htm, and CodedDesign5.htm.
  • Many 20th Century artists have explored simple geometry and color. The list includes: Josef Albers, Gunther Forg, Ellsworth Kelly, Anges Martin, Piet Mondrian, Kenneth Noland, Ad Reinhardt, Bridget Riley and Victor Vasarely. Find the work of one of these artists on the web (or any other known artist working with simple geometry and color), write a commentary on the work. For example, do you like it? Try to explain why or why not. Do you think it is "art"? Why or why not. Submit the commentary and a link so that I can view the work you are discussing.

Due Jan. 24

Friday:
Homage to the Square: Beginning JavaScript Lab Follow the steps shown in the slide show to make first an HTML version of Homage to the Square and then a JavaScript version. (I may be late to class, start without me.)

Announcements:

• Please note that there is an upcoming digital art/music contest (see the posters).
• Leonardo da Vinci's Florence workshop found
• Venezuelan Artist Jesús Rafael Soto, 82, Dies in Paris