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    Escape From the Future: Architecture, Language, and the Computational Turn

    Figure 4.pngThe creators of this online journal and forum controversially argue that computation will engender the final stage of development in the relationship between architecture and computers by ...

    Process/Drawing

    ReasThumb.jpgWriting software is at the core of Casey Reas’s artistic practice. The digital is his medium of choice rather than a means of manipulation. He reflects on ...

    Metaphysics of Genetic Architecture and Computation

    Thumb copy.jpgWith the dissolution of the last utopian project of Man in the name of Communism, the great spectre that once haunted Europe and the rest of the ...

    Nothing Is Random: Automason Ver 2.0

    Figure 1.jpg While computers have dramatically changed the way architects design, construction in the US and around the world is still dependent on ...

    Dazzle Topologies

    EVAN copy.jpg One of the great lessons of the 20th Century that our particular generation of architects has inherited is our appreciation of the infra-thin scale: the primal ...

    Transmitting Iconography

    GRAND2cropb copy.jpg Contemporary telecommunication and computer technologies have fundamentally changed the relationship between sign and space, iconography and matter. While Venturi’s model for the decorated shed grew out ...

    Tectonics, Economics and the Reconfiguration of Practice: The Case for Process Change by Digital Means

    sheldon-thumb.jpgThe current programming culture in architecture could all too easily be written off as a youthful, geeky obsession with the algorithmic and the parametric among nascent practitioners, who ...

    Bodies Unfolding

    Bill and Lila Thumb copy.jpgAfter seeing Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion World Map, a map projected on a flattened isohedron, we began working on the idea of using computer ...

    Cultural Concerns in Computational Architecture

    perkins G. Holmes Perkins, 1904-2004 In September of 2004 I attended two events that reflect on each other. One was the Non-Standard Praxis conference held at MIT. The ...

    Genetic Architecture

    Genetic Architecture With the dissolution of the last utopian project of Man in the name of Communism, thegreat specter that once haunted Europe and the rest of the world has all but ...

    Automason Version 1.0

    Contemporary architects are judged as much by their buildings as they are by the sophistication of the techniques used in design and construction. A certain fascination with technology is natural ...

    Genomic Architecture

    genomic1.gifGenomic architecture is based on the manipulation of the architectural genome. Like its biological counterpart, this genome is universal and encompasses all architecture — past, present and future. ...
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Adult Brain Cell Growth

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

Despite the prevailing belief that adult brain cells don’t grow, a researcher at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory reports in the Dec. 27 issue of Public Library of Science (PLoS) Biology that structural remodeling of neurons does in fact occur in mature brains. . . In 3-D time-lapse images, the brain cells look like plants sprouting together. Some push out tentative tendrils that grow around, or retract from contact with, neighboring cells. Dendrite tips that look like the thinnest twigs grow longer. [press release] [video 1, 2, 3]

via Medgadget

Nokia with Near Field Communication

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

Nokia has rolled out prototype devices that both read and write RFID tags dubbed NFC (Near Field Communication). The interface links phones to phones as well as tags for embedded location-based triggers.

via elastic space

Blob Detection for Processing

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

Blob detection for Processing takes a step forward with some preset visualization tools. Check out Process and Live.

via v3ga

Imagining Painlessness

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

Using real-time fMRI, researchers have shown how patients are able to take control over their pain by watching the activity from the pain regulating area of the brain. “Neuroimaging therapy,” with practice may offer a highly effective solution for chronic pain.

via Wired

Map Projections Archive

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

Map Projections hosts a variety of simple line drawn globe projections for download in PDF form.

via Cartography

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MorphoTower Spiral Swirl

Monday, December 19th, 2005

Sachiko Kodama’s new ferrofluid sculpture, MorphoTower, extends Sachiko Kodama + Minako Takeno’s legendary Protrude, Flow (video) into a helical morphing skin.

via wmmna

Displax : Interactive Storefront Windows

Sunday, December 18th, 2005

Displax developed by Edigma, combines rear projection holographic screens with finger tracking to bring interactive storefront displays to retailers and various commercial applications.

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Daniel Rozin

Saturday, December 17th, 2005

Daniel Rozin is still going at it with is deep exploration into all kinds of mirrors. Circless Mirror, his latest interactive piece, uses 900 motors each controlling a randomly selected gradient disc. [video]

CodeTree: Open Code Repository

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

The CodeTree project, created by Rich Hauck, is attracting coders into its tagged, commented, and open repository of programs.

via abstractmachine

MSN History Visualization v2.0

Monday, December 12th, 2005



MSN History Visualization v2.0
parses IM data into a 3-dimensional interactive word-usage analysis.

via information aesthetics