While the absurdity of the term “augmented reality” surely has thinkers like Baudrillard rolling in their graves (or beds), the technology - whatever you want to call it - is still pretty damn cool. Although this type of system has been employed for years by hollywood, Inglobe Technolgies is the first company (to my knowledge [...]
I’m not really one to post quotes, but I don’t know how to disagree with this one:
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
- George Bernard Shaw, quoted in the Lexington Herald-Leader
No not Hiro (although I wish) and no I don’t mean Iron Man (but I should add Tony Stark to the list too…)
more from abstractmachine
I stumbled on this article by Andy Rutledge over at “A List Apart,” who has some very interesting thoughts on creativity’s roll in design. Are they the same thing? Although Andy Rutledge is writing about web design, the role of creativity - especially in a professional context - has direct implications for architecture. I really [...]
What is algorithmic design
algorithms are not always based on solution strategies concieved entirely in the human mind 19
unlike inventions, discoveries are not conceived or controlled by the human mind 19
an algorithm can describe either the way a problem is to be addressed by a human or by a computer
algorithm is a rationalized version of human [...]
In updating the about page for this site, I thought I would post a copy here with the off chance that someone (anyone) still looks at this page. This is part of an effort to make this site active again, so watch for several updates regarding my current work. You might even be surprised….
From [...]
Thank God for Applecare:
No longer burns my lap
More Space(s)
4gb RAM
.4ghz faster
Scripting project?
From Cecil Balmond:
The new humanism is to recognize the power of pattern, multilayered and catalytic, for we are part of it. Pattern is hard-wired into our consciousness in many ways, from simple aggregation of molecular structure to the spatial coiling within nature’s landscape. When we design we strike resonance with deep buried archetypes of form. [...]
Controlling objects with planes:
object centroid would have to travel exactly between lines
object could stretch, or not
OR could stretch only in + direction so that when lines converge the shape is different
would need a threshold for stretching/resizing as it is copied
Guess it pays to ride the train.