Daniel Shiffman

Daniel Shiffman
Born	(1973-07-29) July 29, 1973 (age 51) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Alma mater	Yale University, Tisch School of the Arts
Known for	Processing
Website	shiffman.net thecodingtrain.com

Daniel Shiffman (born July 29, 1973) is a computer programmer, a member of the Board of Directors of the Processing Foundation,^[1] and an Associate Arts Professor at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University Tisch School of the Arts.^[2] Shiffman received a BA in Mathematics and Philosophy from Yale University and a master's degree from the ITP.^[3]

Early research

His early artworks Swarm #1 (2002), Swarm #2 (2002), and Swarm #3 (2004) explored algorithms to create patterns of virtual flocking birds based on Craig Reynolds’s Boids model as real-time digital brush strokes generated from live video input, producing an organic painterly effect in real time.^[4] Prior to his interests in open source and visual art, Shiffman was the producing director at P73 Productions Inc.,^[5] a small New York theater company he started with some friends from Yale.^[6]

Current work

Daniel Shiffman is currently focused on developing tutorials, examples, and libraries for Processing, the open source programming environment created by Casey Reas and Ben Fry. Shiffman runs a popular YouTube channel, The Coding Train, with instructional videos on how to program in Processing and p5.js, an open-source JavaScript library with a similar API to that of Processing.^[7] He has also taught an adaptation of his The Nature of Code book through Kadenze using p5.js.^[8]

Books

• The Nature of Code^[9]
• Learning Processing^[10]

Papers

• Daniel Shiffman. 2004. Swarm. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Emerging technologies (SIGGRAPH '04), Heather Elliott-Famularo (Ed.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 26.^[11]
• Daniel Shiffman. 2004. Reactive. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Emerging technologies (SIGGRAPH '04), Heather Elliott-Famularo (Ed.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 22.^[12]

Press

• Hughes, Matthew. "Coding Rainbow is a gorgeous, free guide to creative software development." The Next Web Sept 2016. ^[13]
• Schwendener, Martha. "Populism, Technology and Interactivity: Review." New York Times, Lateition (East Coast) ed.: NJ.13. 2011.^[14]
• Fox, Catherine. "Artistic Leap Savannah Museum Gets High-Profile Addition: Main Edition." The Atlanta Journal - Constitution: G.1. 2006.
• Bayliss, Sarah. "What if Jackson Pollock were a PC?" New York Times, Lateition (East Coast) ed.: 2.41. 2003.^[15]
• Marriott, Michel. "I Don't Know Who You are, but You're Toast." The New York Times 1998.

References

1. Processing Foundation
2. Daniel Shiffman NYU Faculty Profile
3. Daniel Shiffman NYU Alumni
4. [Barrass, Tim, et al. "Smart Art Gallery." Leonardo 47.1 (2014): 8-16].
5. P73 Board of Directors
6. "ART; What if Jackson Pollock Were a PC? (Published 2003)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2023-07-04.
7. Playlists by Daniel Shiffman
8. Nature of Code MOOC from Processing Foundation
9. Shiffman, Daniel, Shannon Fry, and Zannah Marsh. The Nature of Code. United States: D. Shiffman, 2012.
10. Shiffman, Daniel. Learning Processing: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction. Amsterdam; Boston; Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier, 2008.
11. Shiffman, Daniel (8 August 2004). "Swarm". ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Emerging technologies. Association for Computing Machinery. p. 26. doi:10.1145/1186155.1186182. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
12. Shiffman, Daniel (8 August 2004). "Reactive". ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Emerging technologies. Association for Computing Machinery. p. 22. doi:10.1145/1186155.1186178.
13. Coding Rainbow is a gorgeous, free guide to creative software development.
14. Populism, Technology and Interactivity: Review
15. "ART; What if Jackson Pollock Were a PC? (Published 2003)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2023-07-04.

External links

• Official website
• Hello Processing!
• Online Nature of Code course
• Daniel Shiffman on GitHub
• The Coding Train website
• The Coding Train on YouTube