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The photos are taken from our Creative Automata (CA) Laboratory, that has a blog associated with it here:

We use Max/Msp/Gen/Jitter in a way that could be quite different than some others — the goal of the CA Lab is to promote an abstract understanding of systems theoretic constructs taught in systems modeling and simulation. Such constructs include knowledge of deterministic and non-deterministic state machines, event scheduling, Petri nets, queueing networks, compartmental models, kinetic graphs, as well as systems of difference and differential equations. Can these abstractions be made more concrete with media? We think so, which is where Max comes in. Max is visual, and it “time-based” throughout from the event scheduling of Max to the synchronous time handling in MSP and Gen. Working closely with time is central to understanding systems. Gen, in particular, is a wonderful component that we use where others in the simulation field typically use packages such as Simulink, Modelica, or SystemsModeler from Wolfram. So, Max turns out to be a great way of teaching the abstractions through a strong human-centered environment—reaching out to students with fairly abstract, technical subject material by way of their hands, ears, and eyes.

We use Max/Msp/Gen/Jitter in a way that could be quite different than some others — the goal of the CA Lab is to promote an abstract understanding of systems theoretic constructs taught in systems modeling and simulation. Such constructs include knowledge of deterministic and non-deterministic state machines, event scheduling, Petri nets, queueing networks, compartmental models, kinetic graphs, as well as systems of difference and differential equations. Can these abstractions be made more concrete with media? We think so, which is where Max comes in. Max is visual, and it “time-based” throughout from the event scheduling of Max to the synchronous time handling in MSP and Gen. Working closely with time is central to understanding systems. Gen, in particular, is a wonderful component that we use where others in the simulation field typically use packages such as Simulink, Modelica, or SystemsModeler from Wolfram.  So, Max turns out to be a great way of teaching the abstractions through a strong human-centered environment—reaching out to students with fairly abstract, technical subject material by way of their hands, ears, and eyes.

[See the full post at: Max for Systems, Modeling & Simulation]


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The beginnings of the Fall 2014 products are now in github. There is lots more to come but this is at least a start. This (as of Feb. 8th 2015) represents about 1/10th of what was created during the semester. I'll be adding to the github repository and the entire collection should be finished by end of March.