I have Casey Reas', Ira Greenberg's and Ben Fry's books on my shelf and I am familiar with Daniel Shiffman's online material. All of these books fill a niche, and so does Kostas Terzidis' Algorithms for Visual Design. The author's approach comes out of architecture with a focus on spatialization, surface, texture, solid geometry, 3D space, movement, with introductions to texture generating algorithms such as Voronoi tesselations, stochastic search, fractals, cellular automata, and genetic algorithms. all specific to the field. The book also introduces references including an overview of the language, basics of graphical user interfaces, bitwise operations for image processing, file I/O and external interactions through various control devices. The code for each assignment is available at [...]
This is an excellent introductory book for beginning students who are starting out in computational visual design and want to achieve results and have an overview command of programming, in 10 chapters. It is therefore an ideal course book. This book falls in line with Terzidis' more theoretical books on algorithmic architecture such as "expressive Form: A Conceptual Approach to Computational Design" and "Algorithmic Architecture". The author holds degrees in Engineering, and Architecture, and is a professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, and has previously taught at UCLA School of Architecture.
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