Little Brown Pen » You Are What You Underline. The Mathematics of Sensible Things Conference. This coming Friday at the Harvard GSD six panelists will present their views on the relationship between math and architectural practice. See details below, or clic here for more info. “Architecture and mathematics have constantly balanced between two extremes: an experiential dimension, often imbued with contemplative connotations, and the quest for operative techniques that do not necessarily present a spatial meaning. Hence the ambiguous moment we are going through, faced simultaneously with architecture’s estrangement from mathematics and the spectacular diffusion of computational tools. Libraries' catalog - Barton - Full Catalog - Full Record. Libraries' catalog - Barton - Full Catalog - Full Record.
Libraries' catalog - Barton - Full Catalog - Full Record. Libraries' catalog - Barton - Full Catalog - Full Record. Libraries' catalog - Barton - Full Catalog - Full Record. MAS.622J Pattern Recognition and Analysis, Fall 2006. HST.508 Genomics and Computational Biology, Fall 2002. 18.315 Combinatorial Theory: Introduction to Graph Theory, Extremal and Enumerative Combinatorics, Spring 2005. 3.A26 Freshman Seminar: The Nature of Engineering, Fall 2005. 3.012 Fundamentals of Materials Science, Fall 2005. 3.012 Fundamentals of Materials Science, Fall 2005. 3.016 Mathematics for Materials Scientists and Engineers, Fall 2005. 3.016 Mathematics for Materials Science and Engineers Fall 2011. System Stalker Lab. Imperfect Health: Demedicalize Architecture. Essay & Gallery: Giovanna Borasi & Mirko Zardini Kayt Brumder, Breathing Room, thesis project at The Cooper Union, New York, 2009. [© Kayt Brumder; all images courtesy of the Canadian Centre for Architecture] We live in a state of pervasive anxiety.
Every day we are confronted with environmental problems: the energy crisis, pollution, decreasing biodiversity, climate change, new epidemics, the externalities of industrial production and consumerist lifestyles. We perceive our bodies as constantly at risk (from sources difficult to pinpoint) of contamination and disease. This increasing concern and obsession with health and well-being, mainly among urban populations in the West, is triggering an inevitable process of medicalization; ordinary problems are increasingly defined in medical terms and understood through a medical framework. [1] Contemporary architecture and urban planning seem to address uncritically the conditions and context in which this discourse on health is developing. Crowd Simulation.
The Works of Sir Thomas More [Writings English and Latin] The Emerging Project. A day of Muni. A visual exploration on mapping complex networks. 99donuts. [ swarm theory ] Swarm Theory « People-triggers. Swarm Theory Swarm Intelligence, or Swarm Theory, is the collective behavior of decentralized, self-organizing systems: ants in a colony, movie raters at Rotten Tomatoes, participants in a market economy, etc.
Swarm Theory: How the Media Controls the Debate // Luke Stibbs // 12.06.2011 – The College Conservative. Swarm Theory" Swarm Theory. I used to think ants knew what they were doing.
The ones marching across my kitchen counter looked so confident, I just figured they had a plan, knew where they were going and what needed to be done. How else could ants organize highways, build elaborate nests, stage epic raids, and do all the other things ants do? Turns out I was wrong. Ants aren't clever little engineers, architects, or warriors after all—at least not as individuals. When it comes to deciding what to do next, most ants don't have a clue. How do we explain, then, the success of Earth's 12,000 or so known ant species?
"Ants aren't smart," Gordon says. Where this intelligence comes from raises a fundamental question in nature: How do the simple actions of individuals add up to the complex behavior of a group? One key to an ant colony, for example, is that no one's in charge. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems Association Swarm Systems Ltd. Swarm Systems Ltd is a systems integrator.
It serves the military market as a prime contractor. Contracts include: delivering capability, development projects and research projects.Its domains of expertise are: Nano Unmanned Air Systems, Autonomous Systems and Fuel Cell Systems. The Nano Unmanned Air Systems are based on VTOL platforms with smartphone user interfaces. The Fuel Cell Systems are high energy density - typically 3x higher Wh/kg than a Lithium battery. Swarm system with Grasshopper+Ghowl+Kangaroo. Swarm system with Grasshopper+Ghowl+Kangaroo by Matthijs la Roi There are many examples of agent based swarm systems developed with the main rules of Craig Reynolds boids.
Processing proved to be a powerful tool to produce some interesting swarm systems. My idea was to develop a swarm system based on Craig Reynolds boids without having to code anything but only use default grasshopper components and plugins for grasshopper. The problem of grasshopper that by default it isn’t structured to perform the loop based calculation to update every agent of a simulation. From previous experiments with gHowl I noticed that gHowl was capable to send internal messages to your internal IP address.
Error what you get if you try to loop some data in grasshopper. After I managed to model the basic boid system of Separation Alignment Cohesion with grasshopper vector components and kangaroo to recalculate velocities, I started making more simple rules. University of Arizona/Computer Sciences/ Swarm. The University of Arizona, Computer Science DepartmentCurrent Research Projects Project Overview The days of building special-purpose hardware to solve large compute and storage problems are drawing to a close.
Experience teaches us that such systems are expensive to build, difficult to program, and unable to track rapid improvements in the underlying technologies. Cumulative Coherence : Thoughts + Experiments. ----------------------------------------------------------------Cumulative Coherence ---------------------------------------------------------------- Primitive The main primitive is a three way interlocking system that has the option for one of six connection points on another primitive.
Within this primitive there are five scales which display growth and decay. From the main primitive there are four sub-primitives descending in scale. They relate to one another through a connected system of parallel operations to produce a cascade of interdependent events. The swarm system is a collection of autonomous primitives. Four distinct characteristics are being distributed throughout the swarm system: I.