Course details

Creative Art

KRG Acad. year 2014/2015 Winter semester 4 credits

Current academic year

Instruction to creative graphics, short history of computer art home and abroad, vector image editors and their capabilities, aesthetically productive periodical functions, attractors, geometrical substitutions, artistic algorithms with random numbers, raster image editors and their capabilities, fractal graphics, 3D quaternion slices, Lindenmayer rewriting grammars, systems of affine transformations, periodical, non-periodical, and aperiodical mosaics, decorative nodes (topology and graphs), artistic processing of raster images, special drawing and other techniques (NPR algorithms), editors for 3D scenes modelling, practical exploitation of selected editors, text editors, combination of editors in image creation, future of creative graphics.

Guarantor

Chudý Peter, doc. Ing., Ph.D., MBA (DCGM)

Language of instruction

Czech

Completion

Classified Credit

Time span

Department

Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia (UPGM)

Subject specific learning outcomes and competences

The students will learn about the history and current status of the creative graphics tools for document creation. They will get acquainted with the principles, data models, data formats, and user interfaces of the selected graphics tools. They will also learn how to practically handle the selected graphics document creation tools. Finally, they will get acquainted with the possibilities to extend the graphics tools with plugins.

Improvement of general skills in computer usage.

Learning objectives

To learn about the history and current status of the creative graphics tools for document creation. To get acquainted with the principles, data models, data formats, and user interfaces of the selected graphics tools. To learn how to practically handle the selected graphics document creation tools. To get acquainted with the possibilities to extend the graphics tools with plugins.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

There are no prerequisites

Study literature

  • Spoehr, K.T., Lehmkuhle, S.W.: Visual Information Processing. W. H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco, 1982, ISBN 0716713748
  • Výuková CD k používaným programům (Adobe, Corel, Microsoft)

Fundamental literature

  • Adobe Illustrator Users Manual, Adobe Inc., USA, (každým rokem se aktualizuje)
  • Adobe Photoshop Users Manual, Adobe Inc., USA, (každým rokem se aktualizuje)
  • Adobe Premiere Users Manual, Adobe Inc., USA, (každým rokem se aktualizuje)
  • TrueSpace Users Manual, Caligari, USA, (každým rokem se aktualizuje)
  • Albers, J.: Interaction of Color. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1975, ISBN 0300018460 

Syllabus of seminars

Syllabus of lectures:
  1. Instruction to creative graphics
  2. Short history of computer art home and abroad
  3. Vector image editors and their capabilities
  4. Aesthetically productive periodical functions, attractors, geometrical substitutions, artistic algorithms with random numbers
  5. Raster image editors and their capabilities 
  6. Fractal graphics, 3D quaternion slices, Lindenmayer rewriting grammars, systems of affine transformations
  7. Periodical, non-periodical, and aperiodic mosaics, decorative nodes (topology and graphs), artistic processing of raster images 
  8. Special drawing and other techniques (NPR algorithms) 
  9. Editors for 3D scenes modelling
  10. Practical exploitation of selected editors 
  11. Text editors 
  12. Combination of editors in image creation 
  13. Future of creative graphics  

Syllabus of computer exercises:
  1. Vector editor Adobe Illustrator
  2. Raster editor Adobe Photoshop
  3. Editor of video sequences Adobe Premiere
  4. Editor of pages Adobe PageMaker
  5. Plugin creation
  6. Text editor Microsoft Word

Progress assessment

Výuka není kontrolována.

Controlled instruction

  • Project - up to 50 points
  • Written exam - up to 50 points

Course inclusion in study plans

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