Branching definition of Branching in the Free Online Encyclopedia. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Warning! The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased. Basic Chaos and Fractals Intro. Simple Iterative Fractals The geometry of Fractals lies somewhere between dimensions.
To be totally accurate "fractal" is even not a 'thing' at all but more like a unit of measure or mathematical characteristic. For example each fractal has a 'fractal dimension' which is it's degree of regularity and repetition. CANTOR SET: One very simple way to understand fractals and the meaning of "iteration" is to examine a simple recursive operation that produces a fractal pattern known as Cantor Set. you take a line of arbitrary length and remove the middle third. this is the first step or "Iteration", then take the remaining two lines and repeat the clipping procedure.
Algorithmic Botany: Publications. Jose's sketchbook - A personal collection of ideas, programming and shiny stuff. In the field of Texture Synthesis, I recently discovered the wonders of the Reaction Diffusion System for nature-like patterns synthesis.
The RD method consists on a set of equations which iteratively simulate the distribution of a chemical agent (activator) modulated by the presence of another agent called inhibitor. It is believed that such interactions take place in nature to form patterns which can be found in mammals and fish, and the first model, generating spots, was proposed by Turing himself [Turing 52], dating back from 1952!. Reaction Diffusion By playing with the parameters of an RD system, it is possible to simulate a variety of patterns ranging from spots to stripes. Unfortunately I haven’t found huge amounts of information on the subject (let alone up-to-date resources): one of the most complete texts is Greg Turk’s thesis [Turk 91], which covers both Turing-like spots and stripes. RD Strip system as appears in |Asai 99|. 'Space' key to reset simulation. References. May 2010. Thursday, May 27, 2010 Existence of RNA 'dark matter' in doubt : Nature News "The abundance of transcripts from the genome may have been overestimated.
RNA 'dark matter' hinted at by previous studies of mammalian genomes may not exist after all. The mysterious matter refers to the large amounts of RNA that are copied from the DNA sequence, or transcribed, but which cannot be accounted for by the genes that have been identified so far. " Full news article @ Nature News Tuesday, May 25, 2010 Top 10 New Species - 2010 "A committee of taxonomists and the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University have picked the top 10 new species identified in 2009. Monday, May 24, 2010 swarm intelligence for adaptive routing in telecommunications networks "We identify typical building blocks of swarm intelligence systems and we show how they are used to solve routing problems.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 C Library for Simulated Evolution of Biological Networks ". Molecular robots. Mathematical biology. Motivation. Firstly, I should probably answer the question of what mathematical biology actually is.
As the name suggests, it is the application of mathematical techniques to biological problems. But why should we want to do such as thing, when experiments can be run? Why would be want to turn the beauty of nature into an ugly equation? Well, here are a few reasons off the top of my head: Experiments can identify cause and effect relationships. As mentioned above, my main interest is in pattern formation. An important aspect of Turing's is that it suggests many types of animals depend on the exact same mechanism to produce their individual patterns. The patterning systems we use tend to rely on diffusion as the key mechanism. Next week I'll be demonstrating how we model diffusion mathematically. References: Design Development/ Analysis of Emergent Form. A series of digital models were generated to be tested for quantities to be used as input parameters.
The condition of the interior space in terms of lighting and thermal comfort was of primal concern during this phase of the design. These conditions can be controlled in the interior through the generated skin. Interior formal elements were chosen from the AnaHYBIOS models to be introduced as final geometry generators. The final geometry in this case being composed of spatial instances where the instance is shaped by the effect of force on matter to produce an environmentally controlled space.
A space that is affected by the exterior weather conditions in a specific location. February 2011. Scenario: 1) Recognition of the “natural” fake of the place (polder developed on the lake) 2) Development of a strategy heterotopic, tentacular, uncertain, organic. 3) Scenarios of confusion between various natures - built natures (facade in hydro-aeroponiques, biodynamic green hairs) and urban, spontaneous, haunted natures, in order to generate a hybrid landscape, non-identifiable. 4) Using the photosynthesis of all green façades to recycle and clean waste water.
Kunstformen der Natur. BioCurious (Sunnyvale, CA. We believe that innovations in biology should be accessible, affordable, and open to everyone.
We’re building a community biology lab for amateurs, inventors, entrepreneurs, and anyone who wants to experiment with friends. Welcome to BioCurious Visit the BioCurious homepage BioCurious Community Lab Opened in Sunnyvale, CA; Fall 2011! Join the discussion at Google Groups Our successful Kickstarter campaign ( brought together volunteers and other biology enthusiasts eager to create a community lab, and they helped us raise over $35,000. We are a 2500 sq. ft. facility in the heart of Silicon Valley. BioCurious is… a complete working laboratory and technical library for entrepreneurs to cheaply access equipment, materials, and co-working space a training center for biotechniques, with an emphasis on safety a meeting place for citizen scientists, hobbyists, activists, and students Science is all around us.
BioCurious is a completely volunteer run non-profit organization. Become a member. Chandler B. McWilliams : Biomimetic Butterflies. Ask Nature - the Biomimicry Design Portal: biomimetics, architecture, biology, innovation inspired by nature, industrial design - Ask Nature - the Biomimicry Design Portal: biomimetics, architecture, biology, innovation inspired by nature, industrial desi.