COURSES / DRAWING MACHINES / RESOURCES 07 / 08 NEXT →

Tools, references,
and inspiration.

Software, hardware, projects, and reading for the Drawing Machines workshop.

Interaction
Telepresence
Sensing
Materials
Animation

Computational Drawing

Carl Lostritto · Applied Research + Design, 2019
Computation as a medium for drawing — exercises, algorithms, essays, and 1:1 reproductions of pen-plotter drawings.

Tracing the Line

Bendandi & Paslier · Vetro Editions, 2023
Showcases 100+ contemporary artists working with pen plotters and drawing machines, with augmented-reality features.

Impossible and Hyper-Real Elements of Architecture

Carl Lostritto · Applied Research + Design, 2023
Exercises and provocations exploring how architects and artists manipulate reality through computational rendering.

Meridian

Matt DesLauriers · Vetro Editions, 2023
All 1,000 outputs of DesLauriers' generative landscape series alongside essays, technical breakdowns, and code examples.

The Nature of Code

Daniel Shiffman · No Starch Press, 2024
The classic creative coding textbook — physics simulations, genetic algorithms, neural networks — rebuilt for JavaScript.

Drawing Codes

Kudless & Marcus · Applied Research + Design, 2024
96 commissioned drawings exploring how architects integrate procedural and computational thinking into their drawing process.
Software
Hardware
Creative Coding
Plotter Techniques

Links will be shared before each workshop.