Course Introdution

Participants start with intense tutorials of basics in coding in Processing (participants are not required to have experience in Processing but if all participants have experience, basics are skipped). Then they learn basics of agent-based algorithms with self-updating behaviors and inter-agent interaction behaviors. Then after that, more specific types of agent-based algorithms such as generative design techniques with branching algorithms, physics simulation with particles and force fields, and swarm algorithms. Participants work on a quick design project of combining multiple agent-based algorithms of generative algorithms and physics simulation algorithms to design complex, generative but efficiently self-optimizing structure considering tension and compression material property.

Through those tutorials and exercise, participants acquire basic coding skills in Processing, understanding of general agent-based algorithms, knowledge of various types of agent-based algorithms useful in computational design and skills to apply, combine, and integrate algorithms to design and produce physical structure with generative and self-organizing complexity.