| Description |
256 pages : illustrations ; 27 x 27 cm |
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regular print |
| 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." --MIT Press |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: page 255 |
| Subject |
Computer graphics.
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Computer programming.
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| Author |
Antonelli, Paola.
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| LC no. |
98037583 |
| ISBN |
0262133547 (hc : alk. paper) |
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0262632446 (paperback) |
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