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]
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.
^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.
^Shiffman, Daniel (8 August 2004).
"Reactive". ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Emerging technologies. Association for Computing Machinery. p. 22.
doi:
10.1145/1186155.1186178.