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Commentary On Book Carving Landscapes by Guy Laramee | Swag So Fresh
Book Carving Landscapes by Guy Laramee | Swag So Fresh
It is fascinating how a simple act on mundane objects can create something amazing. These landscapes carved out of books have a strange intimacy while remaining mysterious. This duality makes all the difference.
Originally via materialicious.
http://www.materialicious.com/2011/12/book-carving-landscapes-by-guy-laramee.html!POST, Art
01.03.12 | no comments | Filed Under: General | ifttt -
Commentary On Vasari and Dynamo
I am sure many of you have already seen this, but I wanted to talk about it anyway. Dynamo provides a graphical way for linking and driving parametric models in Revit. While there are similar tools such a Grasshopper for Rhino, Dynamo’s real promise is bringing a graphical programming environment to a production powerhouse like Revit. I look forward to seeing how it develops.
You can check out more at:
http://insidethefactory.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/12/revit-spaghetti.htmlAnd
01.02.12 | no comments | Filed Under: General | ifttt -
Commentary On #AU2011 Revit for Presentations – Graphics That “POP” – Video and Materials – Jason Grant’s Blog – Adaptive Practice by Jason Grant
A really excellent presentation from AU2011 by Jason Grant and David Light on how to leverage Revit for producing great graphics. Much of their advice is straightforward and many people will know pieces of it, but I doubt very many have been as systematic about it as what is shown in the presentation.
01.02.12 | no comments | Filed Under: General | ifttt -
Commentary On Scientists create light from vacuum
Scientists create light from vacuum
The vacuum of space isn’t empty. It is filled with a constant hum of virtual particles being created and destroyed. It turns out that a couple of scientists have succeeded in making virtual photons real by bouncing the virtual photons off a mirror moving near the speed of light. In this case the mirror is a an electric field.
There is a lesson in this for Architecture; space
12.18.11 | no comments | Filed Under: General | ifttt -
Commentary On How atoms behave: Characteristics of microstructural avalanches
How atoms behave: Characteristics of microstructural avalanches
While not the easiest read for those not familiar with the techniques described to study the micro-structural avalanches, it is still an interesting article concerning the nature of material change.
For a number of years I have intrigued by the idea that Architecture can be thought of as purely a material state with all that implies concerning phase changes, fluctuations in bulk intensive qualitative like temperature and the importance
12.17.11 | no comments | Filed Under: General | ifttt -
Commentary On Gallery of fluid motion: Evocative images and animations bring the science of fluid dynamics to life
Gallery of fluid motion: Evocative images and animations bring the science of fluid dynamics to life
Fluid dynamics is a tough subject but incredibly interesting and full of fruitful architectural ideas like boundary interfaces, turbulent flows, mixing and phase transitions to name a few. This gallery of images and videos showing various experiments and simulations in fluid dynamic research are show all sorts of interesting phenomenon. Some of my favorites are the Direct Numerical Simulation
12.17.11 | no comments | Filed Under: General | ifttt -
Commentary On Video With 1 Trillion Frames Per Second Makes Light Look Slow
http://mashable.com/2011/12/14/trillion-fps-video-camera/
Like the Lytro camera, this camera looks really interesting as it allows one to see the movement of light. There are some physical limitations on the type of scene, but it is amazing the detail that can be shot.
!POST, Technology, Photography
12.17.11 | no comments | Filed Under: General | ifttt
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