Tag: python

Coding Classes in the Winter Semester

In this semester (winter 2019) I offer different coding classes at the Berlin University of the Arts, which seem to attract a lot of students. The idea is to learn common coding concepts by means of Processing and to apply this knowledge to other environments and languages. Coding Basics – introducing basic coding concepts with…


Teaching

I started teaching coding skills (Pascal and C) in 1999 in a lectureship at the Technical University of Berlin, Department of Mathematics. Until today I held different lectures and classes, mainly for students of the Berlin University of the Arts, on the following topics: Coding basics using Processing Coding in Python Generative design with Rhino/Grasshopper…


Polygon | new version 2.0.8 and 3.0.8

After more than one year I released new versions of my python packages for polygon handling. There are only two small changes: fix to isInside() to be more reliable with nested contours binaries ar now hosted at PiPY and can be installed with pip This is my last release of Polygon2 for Python version 2.x,…


MEMEX @ Das Netz

Interactive exhibit at “Das Netz” in the “Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin” – cooperation with Felix Scharstein The MEMEX is a historical vision of an american scientist, published in 1945, but never realized. It is a „device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library“ based on microfilm technology. The most important idea is the creation of…


Packet Routing @ Das Netz

Interactive exhibit at “Das Netz” in the “Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin” – cooperation with Felix Scharstein This device shows a network of 18 nodes and 27 edges that form a model of the internet. Messages can be send betweeen 4 terminals. These messages are split into data packets that are reassembled at the receiving terminal. The routing…


Visualize Packet Routing with FlipDots

Another exhibit for the Berlin Museum of Technolgy will be a visualization of packet routing in networks. A large wall will show a network of nodes and edges, where the connections (edges) are formed by lines of FlipDots. When the visitors send data over the network there will be a lot of optical and acoustical feedback. 🙂   We plan to…


Building a MEMEX

I recently started building a MEMEX device for a new exhibition “Das Netz” in the Berlin Museum of Technolgy. The MEMEX is a vision of a scientist from the 1940s about future knowledge management based on microfilms. The exhibit will use computer components instead but it will simulate the look and feel of a microfilm…


Polygon | new version 2.0.7 and 3.0.7

After one and a half year I released new versions of my packages for polygon handling. There are no big changes, just some patches that have accumulated over the time. Most important are: fixed some methods to work with instances of subclasses fixed a bug in the SVG export (rgb), thanks to Diederik van Lierop…