Welcome. This is a catalog of lecture and workshop notes provided during the Emergent Technologies and Sesign graduate program in the Architectural Association in the fall of 2008. They are listed in reverse chronological order. Feel free to browse through and post any comments.

November workshop notes introducing particle-based dynamics. This tutorial goes beyond geometry by extending metric units with Grams, Newtons & Seconds. Fundamentals of physics critical for any kind of computer simulated process. Methodological introduction to computational experiments: description, simulation, post-processing.

November workshop notes introducing rule-based design strategies. Presentation of classical descriptive systems such as turtle-graphics & L-Systems. Extension to hybrid generative languages: mix of rewriting rules & scripting. How to make your own computational geometry language!

Lecture notes from the October workshop on computational geometry: transitioning from CAD modeling to scripting geometry in Rhino.

Lecture notes from the October workshop on rhino script: basic concepts of computer programming languages through a step by step series of examples.

Part two of the lecture notes from the October workshop on macro script languages: a transition from spreadsheets to text-based procedural transformations.

Part one of the lecture notes from the October workshop on signal processing: an introduction to computation concepts using spreadsheet transformations.

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A list of web resources that you may look up for useful information regarding your projects and what we have discussed so far. Even though it is trivial these days to pull these sites from Google it is still a challenge to distill the very best of all the information out there. Here is a small list of some of the best I have found so far.