Each artists developed low polygon forms from basic primitives and through a series of deformations and replications produced a structure with minimal data. These structures where then developed (made planar) in order for them to be printed two dimensionally. This enabled the surface to be re-constructed backto its original 3D form. As the object exists in 3D in both digital and analogue form this allows us to project animations and graphic back onto the object from the digital version with relative accuracy. In effect the form exists in digital and analogue spaces simultaneously. The analogue and digital spaces are converging into what has become known as Augmented Space or Augmented Reality. This convergence will accelerate in the near future as LED architectural surface technology and motor actuators become cheaper.
Kinetic Sculptures “Strandbeests” by Theo Jansen.
Oct 05 2011: Travelers by grmblshi
Trying to make something of all that recursion.
I want to print one of these at a ridiculous scale.
The spherical alga Volvox swims by means of flagella on thousands of surface somatic cells. This geometry and its large size make it a model organism for studying the fluid dynamics of multicellularity. Remarkably, when two nearby Volvox colonies swim close to a solid surface, they attract one another and can form stable bound states in which they “waltz” or “minuet” around each other.
Ernte Fahion Systems / Tiffa Novoa / Android Jones
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Metraton’s Cube - Watercolour on paper
The golden jelly (Mastigias papua etpisoni) lives in marine lakes in the southern Pacific, most famously Jellyfish Lake in Palau. In addition to obtaining nutrients from captured zooplankton, this jellyfish grows its own garden of photosynthetic microorganisms within its translucent tissues. | +
David Gusset/Violin’s design on the basis of the Golden Ratio.
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Hallway portal/condems? I’ll take two please.
Source: http://blackklungs.tumblr.com
A lovely mix of patterns in this house in Poble Sec , Barcelona.
Tiffa Novoa / Manuel Albarran
Ernesto Neto (b. 1964), Léviathan Thot, Installation in the Panthéon, Paris, France, 2006
“Léviathan Thot, installation monumentale conçue par l’artiste brésilien Ernesto Neto pour le Panthéon, est une œuvre anthropomorphique. Du Léviathan, monstre du livre de Job auquel elle emprunte son nom, elle a les improbables yeux, le cerveau, la bouche, le cœur et les membres ; une créature de tulle contrebalancée par des masses de polystyrène, accrochée sous la coupole d’un des monuments les plus chargés d’histoire de la République.”
Greg Dunn’s stunning gold leaf paintings of cells, neurons and other natural wonders are fit for any wall.
Three impinging jets of silicone oil rebound without coalescence due to thin-film lubrication between the jets. The motion of the oil replenishes the thin layer of air separating the streams. The same phenomenon keeps droplets from coalescing as well. (Photo credit: BIF Lab, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia Tech) #
Two persons die remorseful: he who possessed and enjoyed not, and he who knew but did not practise.
- Sa’di
