ARCHIGRAM. LED Lighting: Getting It Right - LED Lighting Explained. Did You Know? Some well-designed white-light LED fixtures consume 80% less energy than comparable incandescent lamps. LED Lighting Explained - The Book ISBN 978-0-615-36061-4 123 pp. Purchase Avoiding common misconceptions about LED sources and fixtures Myth #1: LEDs last forever Myth #2: LEDs are not bright enough Myth #3: White-light LED sources produce over 160 lumens per watt Myth #4: Three-watt LEDs are brighter than one-watt LEDs Myth #5: LEDs generate no heat Myth #6: LED systems cost too much Myth #7: LED light quality is poor View pdf - LED Lighting: Getting It Right (542KB) Myth #1: LEDs last forever Like all light sources, LED sources slowly fade over time.
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The Imbalancing Act of Entropic Architecture. Los angeles CALIFORNIA Within a discipline where the exact translation of virtual instructions, in the form of drawings or codes, to their material actualization has historically played a decisive role, the current use of algorithmic design tools and computer numerical control (CNC) fabrication technologies would seem to all but eliminate the possibility for exactitude to submit to some external corrupting influence. Paradoxically, the seduction of algorithmic precision has become partially exhausted in the fulfilled promise of its own fidelity.
The absolute control of geometry and its materialization suppresses the potentiality of that which exceeds the firmitas, or solidity, of inert matter. . . . images, clockwise from top left: Christina ANTON, “Synthetic Rhizome.” The relationship between synthetic systems and organic matter can be, and has historically been, considered in terms of entropy. . [1] Julia Kristeva, The Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, trans. Bacteria farming and Software design. | AntiVJ. This is an article about my creative process behind Paelodictyon, a site specific installation that I developed in collaboration with Yannick Jacquet and Thomas Vaquié.
Since this was our first big project integrating Cinder in production from the early stages, and because I used it to create most of the visual content, this post is going to have a big emphasis on creative coding and software development. I’ll try not to get too technical, but still, you’ve been warned, this is a geeky post!
Inspiration. After a few brainstorming sessions with the rest of the team, it appeared pretty quickly that we were going to work with themes inspired by the breathtaking differences in scale found in nature. Our storyboard gave me some pretty clear leads on how to build the the software upon. From storyboard to software. Complexification. When it comes to programming physical processes, I’ve always been fascinated by how combining different layers of complexity can be so powerful. Timeline animation.
83.01.08: Space and Body in Architecture. The following curriculum unit was written for a sixth grade class with a time span of approximately six weeks. The unit contains activities to show the students the significance of how the human body is related to architecture. Architecture is a visual art but it is also important for the students to learn how to experience it. The students I teach live in an urban environment so I will frequently refer to city architecture. It should be stressed to the students that architecture is not mere building but the entire thought process behind the design. I want the students to relate their body experiences to the spatial feelings and thoughts that they have in their homes, with a special emphasis given to their bedroom and the arrangement of individual space. The over-all focus of the unit therefore will be on personal space which can be identified on the exterior and interior of the homes where the students reside.
Architecture is a visual art in which we experience three dimensional space. MIT Press Journals - Home. C-Lab Columbia Laboratory for Architectural Broadcasting. CAAD. Beyond the GRID. This Can't be 'it' As reasonably well-informed scientists and entrepreneurs, we find ourselves in a curious position: here we are, in prosperous Switzerland, fascinated and at the same time increasingly puzzled as we listen to a powerful global rhetoric all around us: there is Immanual Wallerstein, for example, cultivating a World Systems Analysis with considerable political clout, while elsewhere Francis Fukuyama postulates The End of History and conjures up quick fixes for nation-building.
In the mean time, everybody's grappling with financial and environmental crises, and massive conferences are being organised in the hope of tackling issues of global importance. 'Complexity' has become a buzz word that comes up everywhere, in most cases inappropriately, blandly nesting new potentials within an old style of discourse. Analytics' modernist promise of a better understanding through more specialisation and of higher security through greater control does not seem to be borne out. CAAD. News - The Functionality. PowerPoint Presentation - Algorithmic Sustainable Design: The Future of Architectural Theory. Body in Mind — Research into the role of the brain in chronic pain.
Techpeek. Blog on technology and style. Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. Emotional Intelligence Test. This is an interactive version of the Personality-Based Emotional Intelligence Test. Introduction: The term Emotional Intelligence has been given many specific definitions since it gained popularity in the 1980s, but has is generally taken as theorized aspects of intelligence that that are not general intelligence but instead specific to people, such as understanding other peoples perspectives. The idea of EI has been very popular, although a persistent problem of the field is that no one is really sure how to measure EI. The PBEMIT is a new experimental measure of EI that has the subject make prediction about the structure of peoples personalities that are evaluated against real data.
Procedure: In the PBEIT you will be given a personality test item and asked to choose from a group of other personality test items, which would be positively correlated with it. Participation: You use of this assessment should be for educational or entertainment purposes only. 6 Simple Rituals To Reach Your Potential Every Day. It’s Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. Two San Francisco entrepreneurs are pitching their ventures to potential investors today. They’d both agree that this is one of the most important days of their lives. This is the story of Jane and Joe... Jane was up until 4 a.m. putting the final touches on her deck. In fact, she spent the entire weekend fixed in her apartment, preparing the presentation. This morning, she woke up late and rushed putting together her most "investor-worthy" attire. Joe, on the other hand, went to sleep last night at 11 p.m., as he does most nights of the week.
Which entrepreneur would you bet on? And, which entrepreneur most closely resembles you? Jane and Joe are fictional characters but having been immersed in the world of startups in both New York and San Francisco, I see a lot of Janes. This past weekend I had the opportunity to speak with my friend Mike Del Ponte, who resembles the character of Joe. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 2012 In Data Visualizations. 20 Great Infographics of 2012. 2012 has certainly been an eventful year, with everything from elections, to olympics, to scientific breakthroughs, to major weather events. To help review some of the things that happened, here are 20 of the best static infographics from the year. 1. There were several space related events this year. NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on mars, and successfully began collecting data. As this graphic by billowyclouds shows, the scariest part was a terrifying 7 minute landing. 2.
The FAST telescope in China also reached some major milestones in its construction. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 100 Diagrams That Changed the World. Since the dawn of recorded history, we’ve been using visual depictions to map the Earth, order the heavens, make sense of time, dissect the human body, organize the natural world, perform music, and even concretize abstract concepts like consciousness and love. 100 Diagrams That Changed the World (public library) by investigative journalist and documentarian Scott Christianson chronicles the history of our evolving understanding of the world through humanity’s most groundbreaking sketches, illustrations, and drawings, ranging from cave paintings to The Rosetta Stone to Moses Harris’s color wheel to Tim Berners-Lee’s flowchart for a “mesh” information management system, the original blueprint for the world wide web.
It appears that no great diagram is solely authored by its creator. Most of those described here were the culmination of centuries of accumulated knowledge. Most arose from collaboration (and oftentimes in competition) with others. Christianson offers a definition: Extra audio from The Last Quiet Places. | WeatherTool - Help. Welcome to the Weather Tool Help documentation. This is the on-line help file that accompanies the Weather Tool software. You can use the menu below or displayed on the left of this page to navigate. Introduction The Weather Tool allows you to visualise, analyse and edit hourly weather data.
Example screenshot of the Weather Tool v2.00. Add full psychrometric processing to its feature list and you have a unique mechanism for assessing the relative potential of different passive design systems. Main Features The key features of the Weather Tool are the way it allows you to visualise weather data, the flexibility it allows in the import, export and editing of ASCII data files and its many different analysis functions. Passive Design Analysis Given detailed hourly data for a site, psychrometric analysis can be used to determine the potential effects of a range of passive design techniques (as per Szokolay, 1987). Comfort Percentages Solar Position A major part of any climate is the Sun. "RADICAL OPENNESS" - for TEDGlobal 2012 by @Jason_Silva. Projects - Archigram Archival Project.
15 iPhone Apps Every Architect Must Have. Architecture is an occupational field where you need to stay very organized, calculated, have a great deal of creativity and own many skills. The iPhone is a very comprehensive multitasking tool, which if packed with the correct tools can help you do your job quickly and accurately. Draw, read, calculate, organize your meetings, prepare for your LEED certification exam, and experiment with these handy and very useful applications that you will simply love. You are only a click away from having the universe of architectural professionalism right in your pocket for a relatively very small investment! 1. ColorSnap Image source 1 2 3 This is a color matcher application, which allows you to capture just about any color from a photo or the real world and convert it to paint color. iTunes download link 2. Image source 1 2 3 A master tool for drawing and design. iTunes download link 3. Image source 1 2 3 iTunes Download link 4.
Image source 1 2 3 iTunes download link 5. Image source 1 2 3 Image 1 2 3 7. Element 8: visualising oxygen | Exploring The Invisible. Element 8: visualising oxygen. The elemental gas, oxygen is the engine of life and evolution. Only living organisms can produce free atmospheric oxygen in any abundance and consequently, this gaseous element is an invisible signature of life’s fulfilment on our planet. For this series of works, I developed a novel process through which this gas becomes visible so that we might witness its abundance and vitality for the first time. The basis for this series of works is the reaction through which bioluminescent bacteria produce light, as this pathway has an absolute requirement for oxygen. As a consequence of this cells replete with oxygen glow brightly, those limited for this gas produce less light, and those starved of it are completely dark.
In this way, I have discovered that these bacteria are able to function as an exquisitely responsive medium for this vital element with fluctuations in the light that they produce being a monitor that reflects the concentrations of this gas. Home - Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeeback. What is Biofeedback? Biofeedback has evolved from a fascination in the 1960s and 70s to a mainstream methodology today for treating certain medical conditions and improving human performance. This evolution has been driven by years of scientific research demonstrating that the mind and body are connected, and that people can be taught to harness the power of this connection to change physical activity and improve health and function. Public interest in biofeedback is growing, and with it the need for a clear answer to the question, “what is biofeedback?” The leading professional organizations representing the field have answered with the following standard definition: Biofeedback is a process that enables an individual to learn how to change physiological activity for the purposes of improving health and performance.
Precise instruments measure physiological activity such as brainwaves, heart function, breathing, muscle activity, and skin temperature. Processing. Processing is an open source language/ development tool for writing programs in other computers. Useful when you want those other computers to "talk" with an Arduino, for instance to display or save some data collected by the Arduino. Simple Examples Arduino comes with some basic examples for communicating with Processing (in Examples > Communication).
These are useful for when you want to write both Arduino and Processing programs and have them talk to each other. This works best for communicating simple information. If you just want to control an Arduino board from a Processing program, you may want to use the Arduino library for Processing described below. Arduino Library for Processing (and Firmata) This library allows you to control an Arduino board from Processing without writing code for the Arduino. Download Library for Processing v2.0: processing2-arduino.zip (Updated 6 Nov. 2013) (properties file here: processing2-arduino.txt) Instructions Reference Example Another example.
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