Get to Grips with Visual Programming: Beginners VVVV Course
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Description
From projection mapping to interactive environments, VVVV is the code-free programming toolkit that opens up a world of creativity with video.
Whether your canvas is a whole building, your bedroom wall or something...stranger, VVVV will extend your creativity into the third and fourth dimensions. You’ll learn to create with motion, audio, shaders, and interaction, and be confident working with projectors and the Kinect. After completing the course, you’ll be able to take your ideas off the screen and out into the real world.
VVVV is a powerful toolkit of media technologies, hosting a glut of built in functionality, tools and examples. Using a real-time interface you can create generative, aesthetic and functional systems without using code, but also without constraints. It can interface with almost anything you want, it can generate almost anything you want. There aren’t any other media toolkits that can perform so much ‘out of the box’, having you projecting Kinect tracked video onto buildings or controlling robot arms from Twitter in days rather than weeks. The true power of the tool lies within the elegance within which it makes its features available. In the opinion of this author, it can usurp all other platforms in terms of development speed, power and flexibility.
About your tutor, Elliot Woods
Fresh back in Manchester after the Moscow International Festival and Munich's Push Conference, Elliot Woods is a leader in the international projection mapping scene, creating the tools and techniques used from experimental art projects to multi-million dollar marketing campaigns. Elliot is half of Koreo-Brittanic interaction design studio Kimchi and Chips, as seen in Wired, Endgadget and the BBC. Elliot has taught professionals, students, children and led the professional projection mapping course at VVVV’s own digital arts forum.
