Media Computation

I’ve finally got a few minutes to sit down and digest the Alice/Media Computation workshop.

First, it was good.

Second, they gave us lots of good ideas.

And media computation is using software, in this case Java, to manipulate images.  One of the first books on it is available on line and was written by a prominent computer scientist:

http://spinroot.com/pico/index.html 

Beyond Photography, The Digital Darkroom, by Gerard J. Holzmann

Both Barb Ericson and Steve Cooper have been teaching media computation in their Computer Science courses.  There is some information at

http://home.cc.gatech.edu/TeaParty