CS 1025 01 - Week #7 (Feb 25 and 27)

Tuesday, February 25th

1. Playing around with Adobe After Effects Expressions. Looking at the Graphs of Math.cos() and Math.sin() and using the absolute value function Math.abs(). Animation using Expressions. Changing the TRANSFORM properties: Anchor Point, Position, Scale, Opacity, Rotation.

2. Introduction to Ventana VENSIM modeling. Population growth model. Births, Birth Rate, and Population simplest model.

   Review what we covered in class: Read pages 1 through page 4 of Getting Started with Stella and Vensim by Andrew Ford.

Thursday, February 27th

1. HOMEWORK due today: Bouncing Ball background for Adobe After Effects. 14 questions ASSIGNMENT due TODAY, on Thursday, February 27th.

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2. NetLogo Predator Prey Assignment: Predato$ Prey model using NetLogo. Building a Simple Predator/Prey model is due anytime on or before THURSDAY, March 6th. (Send attachment to jacobson@cs.uni.edu with SUBJECT: Netlogo Predator Prey Assignment...

   VIP - MAKE THESE CHANGES: Netlogo 5.0.4 Predator/Prey tutorial changes to the code and the NetLOGO predator prey model.

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3. NetLOGO movie making. Creating footage for After Effects. Making quicktime movies with NetLogo - for footage for Adobe After Effects.

   ;; make a 20-step movie of the current view
   
   setup
   movie-start "out.mov"
   
   repeat 20 
   [
     movie-grab-view
     go
   ]
   
   movie-close