Design History and Theory | Team Univ.Prof. Alison J. Clarke PhD, MA (RCA) BA (Hons) Design History MA (RCA) History of Design with Distinction PhD. (Lond.) Social Anthropology Chair, Department Design History and Theory Research Director Victor. Email Alison J. She joined the University of Applied Arts Vienna, as a full-professor in 2003 having previously held a senior faculty position in Design History and Material Culture at the Royal College of Art, London. Clarke has presented research and lectured internationally at institutions including Parsons School for Design, NYC; National Museum of American History, Washington DC; University of Oxford: University College London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Centre for Consumer Science, Sweden; and Institute of Historical Research, London. Media For media inquiries contact Capel & Land, London. Publications Design Anthropology: Object Culture in the 21st Century (Wien/New York: Springer Verlag 2010) ‘Not So Brand New’ in Brand New eds.
"Connecting the Fractal City", by Nikos A. Salingaros. Nikos A. SalingarosDepartment of Mathematics, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78249, USAKeynote speech, 5th Biennial of towns and town planners in Europe (Barcelona, April 2003). Published in PLANUM -- The European Journal of Planning On-line (March 2004); reprinted in DOXA, Issue 10, Norgunk Publishing House, Istanbul (June 2011), pages 78-101. Living cities have intrinsically fractal properties, in common with all living systems. Introduction. Figure 12.
It’s Been 10 Years: What’s Happened with A New Kind of Science? May 7, 2012 (This is the first of a series of posts related to next week’s tenth anniversary of A New Kind of Science.) On May 14, 2012, it’ll be 10 years since A New Kind of Science (“the NKS book”) was published. After 20 years of research, and nearly 11 years writing the book, I’d taken most things about as far as I could at that time. I’ve been doing little bits of NKS-oriented science here and there (notably at our annual Summer School). A place to start is the academic literature, where there’s now an average of slightly over one new paper per day published citing the NKS book—with that number steadily increasing. And looking through the list of papers my main response is “Wow—so much stuff”. There are typically three broad categories of NKS work: pure NKS, applied NKS, and the NKS way of thinking. And with these categories, here’s how the academic papers published in different types of journals break down: So what are all these papers actually about? Hair patterns in mice.
Theory Talks: Theory Talk #20: David Harvey What is, according to you, the biggest challenge / principal debate in current IR (International Relations)? And what is your position or answer to this challenge / in this debate? I think the principal challenge is to theorize ‘correctly’ the relationship between the territoriality of political power and the spatiality of capital accumulation. To clarify that statement, one has to inquire into the nature of these respective processes. I’ve tried to work out for myself how to think about these two logics but I understand that my answers might not necessarily be the correct ones, but I think we should be having a far more serious debate on that question. How did you arrive at where you currently are in IR? For me, the epiphany came in the late 60s, early 70s, when I understood that the field I was working in, that of quantitative geography, simply couldn’t grasp what was going on politically in Vietnam nor economically with the crisis of ’72-’75. I’d like to ask: what is the state?
Crumbling Facade Got it! This website uses google, which in turn uses cookies to deliver ads and track usage information. If you use the website you agree that we use cookies. This message is to inform you about EU law since september 2015 More info Cookie Consent plugin for the EU cookie law Welcome to Fractal Forums > Gallery > Linked to Boards > 3d > Mandelbulb 3d Return to Gallery Powered by SMF Gallery Pro Page created in 3.716 seconds with 40 queries. tensegrity - home Saskia Sassen The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal Visit First page Experimenting with iterations and powers Okay enough eye candy for now. Let's have a closer look at the structure of this beast. The final stage (infinity iterations) is very similar at first glance to iteration 5000 (unless you zoom right in), as the shape converges to a shape comprised of tangent circles. One interesting question is: Does this same phenomenon happen with our power 8, 3D Mandelbulb? Power 8 (zooming into this object produces all the eye candy on the previous page): Click any picture to enlarge. A higher quality image below, and a super-large 4000x4000 version is here for the patient. And once you zoom into that, you get the magic as shown before. Squaring (power 2) Zooming in to the object above will produce mostly relatively dull patterns and maybe one or two surprises, but which still mostly have only 'whipped cream' style textures (see here for a 7500x7500 pixel render if you're patient). Finally, let's take a look at power 3. Power 3 Click any to enlarge.
The Synergism Hypothesis The Synergism Hypothesis On the Concept of Synergy and It's Role in the Evolution of Complex Systems Peter A. Corning, Ph.D. Institute for the Study of Complex Systems 119 Bryant Street, Suite 212 Palo Alto, CA 94301 USA Phone: (650) 325-5717 Fax: (650) 325-3775 Email: pacorning@complexsystems.org "Generalizations derived from a juxtaposition of facts are not fruitful unless some conceptual, theoretical scheme guided the generalizations and, incidentally, the selection of facts..." Anatol Rapoport "Experiments unguided by an appropriate theoretical framework usually amount to little more than ‘watching the pot boil'... John H. It is one of the paradoxes of our age that as the tools of scientific research have grown ever more powerful -- from positron emission tomography to electron microscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance and massively parallel computers -- the phenomena we are able to investigate (and their causal dynamics) seem to grow ever more complex. Scientific Discipline Associated Terminology
The Creativity Post About 3D fractals and Mandelmorphic art What Are 3D Fractals? In 2009, after a two-year effort, a group of innovators from Fractal Forums found a way to project the Mandelbrot set and similar equations into three dimensional space. A typical Mandelbulb, generated with Mandelbulber This mathematical transformation that manifested the two-dimensional Mandelbrot set as the three-dimensional Mandelbulb, Daniel White and Paul Nylander (and the rest of the group at Fractal Forums) opened the door into a world populated by a previously unknown kind of object: the 3D fractal. The Mandelbulb and the Mandelbox (discovered in 2010 by Tom Lowe) are ‘pure’ manifestations of the Mandelbrot equation and exhibit the same kind of bottomless, self-similar detail. Beyond these two shapes exist a wild variety of endlessly detailed 3D fractals. Mandelmorphosis A typical Mandelbox, generated with Mandelbulb 3D (MB3D) 3D fractals are a range of chaotic equation-based objects—most often derived from- or related to- the Mandelbrot set. An Emerging Field
Emergent Phenomena in Nature Nature offers many familiar examples of emergence, and the Internet is creating more. The following examples of emergent systems in nature illustrate the kinds of feedback between individual elements of natural systems that give rise to surprising ordered behavior. They also illustrate a clear trade off between the number of elements involved in the emergent system and the complexity of their individual interactions. The more complex the interactions between elements, the fewer elements are needed for a higher-level phenomenon to emerge. Hurricanes and sand dunes form from vast numbers of very simple elements whereas even small groups of birds can exhibit flocking behavior. What is the lesson for multicellular computing? It behooves us to better understand emergence in complex dynamic systems. Hurricanes Hurricanes emerge from mutual positive feedback between wind, humidity, evaporation of sufficiently warm ocean surface waters and Coriolis effects. Sand Dunes Flocks of birds Termite Mounds