http://www.regulatedlines.com/blog Insert temporally esoteric architectonic pharaseology here. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:22:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en *new* Portfolio work up at: Architizer *new* Teaching work up at: archCUA.tumblr.com http://www.regulatedlines.com/blog/?p=173 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 ... http://www.regulatedlines.com/blog/?p=168 Adding to the development of an (unhealthy?) admiration for Rem... http://www.regulatedlines.com/blog/?p=166 I took it upon myself this weekend to learn Grasshopper (formerly the explicit history tool), a new plugin from McNeel (Rhino). All I can say is that the plugin is incredibly easy, and poised to change many things surrounding the field of architecture. It's absolutely brilliant. While there are other products ... http://www.regulatedlines.com/blog/?p=152 I'm sorry can you please repeat the question? http://www.regulatedlines.com/blog/?p=156 http://www.regulatedlines.com/blog/?p=144 For my wedding this past august, I worked to design a few elements. Since we were conducting the ceremony in a single (nasty, ball-)room we needed a flexible way to create a more intimate space for the ceremony, and a more open space for the reception. I created a mock-up ... http://www.regulatedlines.com/blog/?p=131 If you don't know Processing, you should. In Courtney's Arch448E course last spring (at Maryland) I developed a number or Processing Sketches which made use of a live video feed as a generative device for on screen graphics. These made use of a couple techniques. One technique was sequential frame differencing where ... http://www.regulatedlines.com/blog/?p=121 It's been quite a while since I updated anything here. Rather than leave a (false) promise of coming posts  I decided to make a massive update post showing/describing work that I have completed in the last few (7? 8?) months. I would like to extend a special thank you to ... http://www.regulatedlines.com/blog/?p=119 Fantastic mechanical sculpture by Arthur Ganson at ted.com. playful. rigorous. beautiful. animated. http://www.regulatedlines.com/blog/?p=117 Not to take anything away from one of the best "computational designers" (or whatever) - Robert Hodgin, but this (new?!) guy is bringing some serious heat with his FIRST processing animation. HOT. I'd say he's off to a good start. Music Is Math from glennmarshall on Vimeo. Hopefully he will be updating frequently ... http://www.regulatedlines.com/blog/?p=114 Ever since I read Wired's interview with Jeff Bezos back in January, I have been waiting to see Amazon's Web Services in an architecture/modeling application. Perhaps the most obvious application is a render farm using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud which is currently offered by http://www.renderrocket.com/ and a couple other companies. the renderrocket.com rates ... http://www.regulatedlines.com/blog/?p=113 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 ... http://www.regulatedlines.com/blog/?p=112 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 http://www.regulatedlines.com/blog/?p=109 Just one more reason why html should die. I have been spending the day working on my final project for my Visual Representation course, which has unfortunately meant wrestling with regular expressions. (If you are not familiar: regular expressions). Perhaps ironically, regex's tend to produce some of the most obfuscated ... http://www.regulatedlines.com/blog/?p=108 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 ... http://www.regulatedlines.com/blog/?p=102 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 ... http://www.regulatedlines.com/blog/?p=23 My first stint into the world of Processing.org. Written in mid-march. This project took way too long - not because of the programming, but because my understanding of differential equations is miserable. Still learned a lot though, and Processing is an amazing framework. The highlight (w00t!) was the recursive way that ... http://www.regulatedlines.com/blog/?p=88 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 ... http://www.regulatedlines.com/blog/?p=83 I do realize what month it is... For this project (which I presented in December) we were fortunate enough to actually have a "client" - Living Classrooms, a Baltimore based NPO focused on educating "at risk" people of all ages. The program was a design exploration for a new center they ... http://www.regulatedlines.com/blog/?p=84