ezioblasetti We are the hackers of abstraction. We produce new concepts, new perceptions, new sensations, hacked out of raw data. Whatever we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colorings, we are the abstracters of new worlds. Whether we come to represent ourselves as researchers or authors, artists or biologists, chemists or musicians, philosophers or programmers, each of these subjectivities is but a fragment of a class still becoming, bit by bit, aware of itself as such. — A Hacker Manifesto by McKenzie Wark I spend much energy trying to realize situations and occurrences physically before I give in to digital effects. — Barney and Noé discuss River of Fundament PEOPLE: Robert Williams - Geometry + Mathematics we-designs: Robert Edward Williams (born 1942) is an American designer, mathematician, and architect. Now, poetry, as generous as its beauty may be, is indubitably an authoritarian form of declaration. — Badiou, ‘Plato, Our Dear Plato!’
projets paperhouse maison L branly guénot val de grâce pons + huot chaumont saint louis galvani pac villa moderne wolfsburg mainz chargey Polygon Triangulation - Graphics Programming and Theory Modern GPUs have an annoying habbit of only liking to draw triangles. Often when using 3D modeling programs or vector-based drawing applications to produce game art, you'll get instead a soup of arbitrary polygons. This is an issue if you plan to rasterize these polygons. Fortunately, polygons can be decomposed into triangles relatively easily.There are many different ways to decompose polygons into triangles. For Convex Polygons This one is by far the easiest. For this case, you can pick any vertex in the polygon and create a triangle fan outward. create a stack with all of the vertecies in CW/CCW order; pop the top vertex off the stack and store in p0; pop the top vertex off the stack and store in pHelper;while the stack is not empty pop the top vertex off the stack and store in pTemp; create a triangle with vertices p0, pHelper, pTemp; let pHelper = pTemp The created triangle soup will be a complete triangulation of the polygon, but it only works with convex polygons!
biography - Alexander McQueen From there he moved to the theatrical costumiers Angels and Bermans where he mastered 6 methods of pattern cutting from the melodramatic 16th Century to the razor sharp tailoring which has become a McQueen signature. Aged 20 he was employed by the designer Koji Tatsuno, who also had his roots in British tailoring. A year later McQueen travelled to Milan where he was employed as Romeo Gigli’s design assistant. On his return to London, he completed a Masters degree in Fashion Design at Central Saint Martin’s. In less than 10 years McQueen became one of the most respected fashion designers in the world. In December 2000, 51% of Alexander McQueen was acquired by the Gucci Group, where he remained Creative Director.
Frank Ghery This morning, my friend Doug sent me the following pictures of the Marques de Riscal Hotel in Elciego, Spain designed by the genius Frank Ghery. One day I would like him to design a house for me. (Thanks Douglas for the link and pictures!) Plethora Project DigitalArtifacts Computer aided design and 3D modeling has more traditionally been used to create perfect images, trying to eliminate glitches and unpredictable elements. A lot of digital art is now celebrating these imperfections though, and many designers are translating the glitch aesthetic back into tangible objects. Why is this blurring of boundaries interesting for you? Well my design process is actually two parts – I spend hours and hours making small details by hand working with materials, and then I spend hours and hours sitting behind my computer exploring effects and watching tutorials and getting to know programs. Why is this blurring of boundaries interesting for you?
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