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the white hotel | brussels

-The White Hotel in Brussels. Link ““Disturb Me” is an interactive installation between human and his environment. It is to make perceptible the reciprocal links and often forgotten contact, that we maintain with our environment. The projection depends on the sound emitted by the spectators and creates consequently, a transitory and colored environment. The projected […]

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Thesis Precedents

-Precedent study for thesis project at the University of Michigan Digital Mania Thesis Seminar.

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jenny sabin: branching morphogenesis

PHILADELPHIA – Made from 75,000 interconnected cable zip-ties, “Branching Morphogenesis,” simulates the predicted network generated by human lung cells as they interact with an extracellular matrix in three-dimensional space and time. Designed and produced by the Sabin+Jones LabStudio at Penn, “Branching Morphogenesis” allows visitors to walk through a giant three-dimensional “datascape,” encapsulating the way in […]

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A Comparative Computer Simulation of Dendritic Morphology

Dendritic morphology underlies many aspects of nervous system structure and function. Dendrites, along with axons, define the connectivity of the brain [1],[2], and play a large role in information processing at the single cell level [3],[4]. Many studies have highlighted the importance of dendritic branching pattern in neuronal behavior. Mainen and Sejnowski [5] have shown […]

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nikos salingaros | on fractal scaling

For the past few years, I have been applying the analytic thinking of a scientist to find basic laws for architecture and urbanism, following the lead of my friend, the brilliant architectural theorist Christopher Alexander. The results derived so far show that a building, or city, is subject to the same organizational laws as a […]

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unit 20: convoluted flesh

Convoluted Flesh The convoluted (i.e. overlapped, intertwined and blurred) nature of contemporary architectural design, as we understand it, goes beyond the functions of opulence and intricacy, of technique and simulation, of module and optimisation. It invokes something ranking above notions of beauty, style, and elegance – it evokes the sublime, the blissful and the mysterious. […]

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sea-mouse nanowires

THE shimmering sea mouse, Aphrodita aculeata, may hold a key to creating nanoscale electronics, making it possible to produce nanowires 100 times longer than existing methods allow – and for a fraction of the price. The sea mouse is a marine worm the length of your thumb and is native to the North Atlantic and […]

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Fractals and the art of roughness

At TED2010, mathematics legend Benoit Mandelbrot develops a theme he first discussed at TED in 1984 — the extreme complexity of roughness, and the way that fractal math can find order within patterns that seem unknowably complicated. Benoit Mandelbrot – Fractal Art – Ted Link Ron Eglash – African Fractals – Ted Link

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Archimorph Book i

-In early 2011 Archimorph will be publishing their first book, self-titled; Archimorph Book I: Architecture, Biomimetics, Technology. More information will be available closer to the release date.-JB

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BBC Life | Plants

“Plants’ solutions to life’s challenges are as ingenious and manipulative as any animal’s. Innovative time-lapse photography opens up a parallel world where plants act like fly-paper, or spring-loaded traps, to catch insects. Vines develop suckers and claws to haul themselves into the rainforest canopy. Every peculiar shape proves to have a clever purpose. The dragon’s […]

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