Tim Rodenbröker

Three great resources to find inspiration for Creative Coding

Hello dear people, ☀️

I hope you are doing well! Today I provide you with lots of inspiration and share with you three places that I turn to when I'm looking for ideas.

Stig Møller Hansen's Pinterest board is one of them, there you can find over 4000 designs, all of them at least in theory following a principle that can be implemented with coding. Stig, you are amazing! 🙏�...

Creative Coding for clients - Insights into my work for nytimes.com and IBM

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I hope you are doing well! Today I'm sharing insights into my work for clients and show you how I've been gaining valuable requests via Instagram and other social networks over the past few years. By now I receive such a request almost every week, but since I have limited resources I just cherry pick the projects that go fast and also make sense to me....

Project "Hybrid Curriculum" - porting all courses to p5.js / a new UI for navigating my courses 🔥

Hello folks, 🙋🏻

I hope you are doing well! 

Last week I announced that I'm porting the courses from Processing to p5.js together with the help of a few great contributors. By now we have translated about 90% of the lessons and it's tot...

Project "Hybrid Curriculum": Enhancing all lessons with p5.js-code

Hello folks, ✌️

I hope you are all doing well! Here comes a huge update. 

Backstory: For the current semester, I have accepted a small teaching assignment for Creative Coding again after a long time. This time I'm teaching the course "Graphic Design Machines" at the FH Bielefeld together with Florian Gubernator, who has an enormous background in both graphic design and...

New course out now: ASCII Adventures 🔥

Hi folks! 🙌

I hope you are well. Today I send you an update again. A lot has happened in the last days. The most important in short:

ASCII Adventures is out now!

Finally it's done: ASCII Adventure is now completely finished! I'm super happy with the result and have learned a lot again during the development of the course. This ti...

ASCII Adventures / What's next? / www sketchbook

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i hope you are doing good!

Things are going really well! I have now recorded all the videos for ASCII Adventures, actually I wanted to share the course with you already tod...

Roadmap update: next course releases, web technology research

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i hope you are doing well!

after I had a lot of hustle and bustle at the DEMO festival last week, I am now very much looking forward to about 4 weeks without any travel and appointments. I can now focus on the development of the courses and also finally dedicate myself to my research ...

"The new Demoscene" – My talk at DEMO Festival 2022

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i hope you are doing good!

I am super escited, because tomorrow (i am writing this text on Wednesday, October 5th 2022) the DEMO Festival! Yay! In the afternoon I will give my talk and since the whole thing won't be broadcast on the net, I thought it would be a good idea to share a recording/rehearsal of it on Patreon this week.

In the keynote, which lasts abo...

Exclusive tutorial: Exploring the Ani library for Processing, a game-changer for motion design 🔥

Hi folks, 🙌

I hope you are all well! I am just passing through: Next week I'll be in the Netherlands for the DEMO Festival and I'm really looking forward to it! 

At the moment I'm working on a couple of client projects in parallel and I'm often using the great 2022-09-30 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Workshop-Finale "Form follows Music" in Kassel

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I hope you are well! Yesterday I was on my way back from my workshop "Form follows Music" in Kassel, which was a lot of fun. The Micromata company generously sponso...

Grid Systems Q&A ☀️ / Website improvements 🛠

Hi folks! ✌️

I'm in Kassel right now and today I'm giving a workshop for music visualization, based on my 2022-09-16 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post

New Course: "Grid Systems" is out now! 🔥

Hi there! 

I hope you are well! Phew, what a journey! After a long period of work, about a dozen discarded lessons, and many discussions with a wide variety of people, I finally got Grid Systems into a finished state. The course is now available. 

Looking at the course now I realize that once again it has all become much simpler than originally thought. As...

Let's meet! 🍸 September 8th 2022 / 7pm (CET) on Discord

Hey there!

One more thing: Next week there will be a casual community meetup! We will gather in the #letsmeet channel on our Discord server, starting at 7pm (CET). 

if you haven't registered on our Discord server yet, you can do so 2022-09-02 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Centering a Grid System / Redrawing Images

Hi Folks,☀️

I'm back from Rotterdam and looking back on a super inspiring couple of days! Today I directly used the new energy and recorded a session explaining how to cleanly center a grid system in Processing. The question had come up in Discord, thanks to Sherm! There are a lot of exciting possibilities with centering grid systems, and I used this approach in 2022-09-02 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Tutorial/Session: "ASCII Adventures" (code is attached)

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I hope you are well! I spontaneously went to Rotterdam and am now sitting in the office of Studio Dumbar. I am so incredibly happy that some of you have submitted work for the DEMO Festival! Some of them have now been sele...

form follows music - a glimpse into my upcoming course on music visualization 🔥

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things are moving forward! Today I would like to share a first glimpse into the course "Form follows Music", which is about music visualization of the Prelude in C by Johann Sebastian Bach. Due to its regular structure, the piano piece is almost perfect to be used as a dataset for generative design. In the video I show you the piece, some early experiment...

Processing or p5.js – Which is the better language for beginners?

Hi! 

In case you haven't seen it yet: I've wrote a new blogpost.

The range of Creative Coding languages and frameworks is enormous and  often confusing at the beginning. In my newest blogpost I try to clarify what is important when choosing a programming language ...

I'm back from my vacation / Planned course-releases

Hello folks, ✌️

i hope you are doing well!

After a few weeks of absence I'm back from my summer break! I look back on a great bike trip with great friends through the French Alps. We rode from Lake Geneva through wonderful landscapes to the Cote d'Azur and even crossed an alpine pass at 2400 meters on the way. That was one of the most beautiful trips of my life....

A conversation with Stig Møller Hansen

Hello dear community, 👋🏼

I hope you are all well! This is my last post before a three week summer break, as I will be leaving Sunday for a long bike tour. This Friday I want to share with you a conversation I recorded in March 2022. 

The sympathic Dane Stig Moller Hansen is Senior Associate Professor at 2022-07-15 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post

What's next? Here's my roadmap for autumn and winter 2022

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here's a quick "hello" in between. 

Before I go on vacation on friday, I would like to tell you what my plans are for the rest of the year and i really would like to hear what you think about it. Now that my master thesis is done, I have my head fr...

Physical Community Meetup in 2023?

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I hope you are all doing well!

My studies are done, this weekend is the exhibition at the Design Department of the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld and I'm totally looking forward to my vacation: Next weekend my summer trip starts: I will ride with 3 friends by bike from Geneva to Nice. I'm totally looking forward to finally not having a com...

Grid Systems - work in progress

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I hope you are all well! Now that the master thesis is finally done, I have time again to take care of my courses on the website. Most recently I've ...

My master thesis "Creative Coding as a School of Thought" is now live!

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i hope you are doing well!

When I started my master’s program in  2019, I had one question in mind that would become the linchpin for me  in the following years: What is Creative Coding? And taken a step further, what can Creative...

Exclusive Tutorial: Interactive Grid System for DEMO 2022

Dear folks ☀️

i hope you are doing well!

right now it's really hectic here, I'm in the final stages of correcting my master thesis and I'm doing a lot of things at the same time again. Fortunately, this phase is finally over in mid-July, so I can go on vacation for two weeks. I am really looking forward to that.

Today I recorded a quick run-through for my ...

The workshop at International Assembly was amazing! 💙

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I hope you are all doing well! Last week I did my three-day workshop at International Assembly and it was really really cool. The organization of the event was top notch (thanks again so much to Mook!!) and I was especially happy that some of the Patreon community was there. It's a super intense learning experience for everyone involved when you get to...

Update June 2022 - DEMO / Courses / Workshop / Feedback

Hello everyone! ☀️

Here in Paderborn the summer has finally arrived. However, I spend most of my time in my little office finishing my master thesis "Creative Coding as a School of Thought". I'm now in the final stage, fine-tuning the texts, next week i will start ...

Spotlight w/ Stig Møller Hansen | Part 1

Hi everyone! 🙌

I hope you are doing well! This week i' send you a new episode of my "spotlight"-series on Youtube. 

Stig Møller Hansen is a Creative Coding educator from Denmark, working  at the Danish School of Media and Journalism in Kopenhagen. He has  written a highly recommendable dissertation on teaching Creative Coding  in the field of...

Building a digital painting studio from scratch with Processing

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i hope you are doing well!

A few weeks ago I met the German artist Arno Beck, whose work I find absolutely great. Arno is a painter and deals with the transfer of digital phenomena into the physical world. Inspired by his painting I developed a digital painting software with Processi...

New Search-feature

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before i'll send you a new session tomorrow, i want to share a very quick update on the user interface of the website. I've finally made it to implement the search. This feature should be very useful for you.

Do you have any tips on the accessibility and the usability of the website? Just drop me a line via e-mail, discord or patreon comment.  ...

Ksawery Komputery's latest work (🔥️) / Creative Coding with web-technologies

Hello dear people, 

I hope you are well! Today I would like to share with you a great work I discovered on the net this week. It's a music video by Ksawery Komputery for Max Cooper, implemented 100% with HTML,CSS and Javascript. So it's basically a web page. I had a quick chat with Ksawery yesterday and he revealed that he used p5.js to control the ...