Course detail

Creative Art

FIT-KRGAcad. year: 2015/2016

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.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Peter Chudý, Ph.D., MBA

Department

Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia (UPGM)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

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.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Výuka není kontrolována.

Course curriculum

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

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

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.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

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

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic 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 

Recommended reading

  • 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)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme IT-MGR-2 Master's

    branch MBI , any year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch MPV , any year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch MGM , any year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch MSK , any year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch MIS , any year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch MBS , any year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch MIN , any year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch MMM , any year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

13 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Peter Chudý, Ph.D., MBA

Syllabus

  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  

Project

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Peter Chudý, Ph.D., MBA