interscalar // systemic operations

the workshop introduced a general thinking platform with the key notion of interscalar to imply intense systemic operations in different levels. the brief developed along those lines in a more focused area of action by identifying the interscalarity in the theme of border. It was a theme that emerged though intensive communications with the doctors and specialist from the psychiatric field. The theme of border was there to negotiate with issues of security and socialization that reactivates the will and desire for action. So the pressing question was how to transform a dividing mechanism to a communication interface. How to make a secure border without a fence? The request of the brief was to provoke a thinking mode that is able to open up the notion of a border form something that divides fixed static entities to a device that negotiates the intricacies of each system. To think through systems and multiplicities was something that served the purpose of the operations to redefine the theme of border. A multiplicity is not a mere aggregation of different parts but is a systemic in-formation of a device that belongs to many without having the need of reductive and static unification. Across to those lines the brief encouraged students to form three groups in order to investigate the theme of border in different scales with different implied scenarios.

parametrics in 3ds max

sun sensitive facade
this is the last experiment with 3ds max for now
go back to real programming and maybe in the near future
to hack it again with C++ or Python

re-working SOfM

this is an early study on SOfM. it uses Splines to provide the Features that will work as inputs for the map to adapt.

expression and wiring parameters 3Ds max

a line of code in 3Ds max and exaustive Vray:
needs 3min to wire the expression to parameters
and 33min to render it

processing // exp

Beyond Autopoiesis

updated 03/08/2009

"In Deleuze and Guattari's model there is no center which is formally contolling the behaviour: that is, there is not a top-down subject or agent of evolution (whethere a CNS or a homunculus), but only a distributed intelligence that encompasses brains, bodies , molecules and worlds, all of which exist in terms of overlapping territories. It is on this point that they can be seen to depart from the figuration of autocatalysis in the theory of autopoiesis or self-organization."

Keith Ansell Pearson Germinal Life p.176

while autopoiesis has done some imprtant theoretical work, it is unsuitable for modeling 'real systems' because its emphasis on closed, stable systems provides an adequate understanding of virtual change, in which an autogenetic cycle components can get closed out, new components can enter, certain components can mutate, and so on"

Csnyi, V.(1996) Organization, Function and Creativity in bilogical and Social Systems. In Evolution, Order and Complexity, London and New York, Routledge, 146-81,

differen[c/t]iation

differentiation occurs in the virtual realm in the palne of immanence
differenciation occurs in the process of actualization.

according to John Protevi

Differentiation = differential structure of ideas or "multiplicity". Idea = set of differential elements, differential relations, and their singularities

Differenciation = divergent actualization of ideas resulting in set products with extensive properties: spatial and qualitative

and we goes on by adding the 'drama' for 'dramatization'

Dramatization of Ideas occurs in the intensive spatio temporal individuation processes.

Individuation = this is the most important term, for Deleuze individuation has priority over actualization differeciation and it determines which differential relation will be actualized. it is the priority of individuation tha prevents the virtual from being Platonized, as being a pre-existing Ideas. In fact Protevi adds ideas are determined or even invented by individuation processes.

it is interesting Protevi's proposing formula of:

"indi - drama -different/ciation"

to accept the undecided spelling of this world means to accept simultaneously the virtual structures of an entity and its process of actualization.
a disjunctive synthesis is a locus for differen[c/t]iation

epistemological vs ontological emergence

... content is coming soon ...

from molar to molecular and back again

the time, the transformation and the 'becoming' is what marks the molecular. is the distinction between the stratified space (molar) and the liquefied space (molecular) that Deleuze draws from the 'molecular' concept of 'becoming'

A* search algorithm

A* incrementally searches all routes leading from the starting point until it finds the shortest path to a goal. Like all informed search algorithms, it searches first the routes that appear to be most likely to lead towards the goal. What sets A* apart from a greedy best-first search is that it also takes the distance already traveled into account (the g(x) part of the heuristic is the cost from the start, and not simply the local cost from the previously expanded node).
Starting with a given node, the algorithm expands the node with the lowest f(x) value—the node that has the lowest cost-per-benefit. A* maintains a set of partial solutions—unexpanded leaf nodes of expanded nodes—stored in a priority queue. The priority assigned to a path x is determined by the function f(x) = g(x) + h(x). The function continues until a goal has a lower f(x) value than any node in the queue (or until the tree is fully traversed). Multiple goals may be passed over if there is a path that may lead to a lower-cost goal.
The lower f(x), the higher the priority (so a min-heap could be used to implement the queue).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%2A_search_algorithm

linear science of the unproblematic world

superposition principle :: given two different solutions to of a linear equation, their sum is also a valid solution
Delanda, M(2002) Intinsive Science and Virtual Philosophy. Continuum, London

Laplace's Damon at work: "linear models are representative of all reallity :: knowledge of the initial conditions and basic laws of a system would yield knowledge of all possible states of the system"
Protevi, J. and Bonta, M. (2004) Deleuze and Geophilosophy: A Guide and a Glossary.Endiburgh University Press, Endiburgh

part of my reading about the philosophy of science the ontological and epistemological impligations of Gilles Deleuze

bootstrapping

Bootstrapping or Bootstrap may refer to:
Bootstrapping (business), to start a business without external help/capital
Bootstrapping (computing), the process of a simple system activating a more complicated system that serves the same purpose
Bootstrapping (compilers), writing a compiler for a computer language using the language itself
Bootstrapping (electronics), a form of positive feedback in analog circuit design.
Bootstrapping (finance), the method to create the spot rate curve.
Bootstrapping (law), a rule preventing hearsay in conspiracy cases.
Bootstrapping (linguistics), a theory of language acquisition.
Bootstrapping (statistics), a resampling technique used to obtain estimates of summary statistics.
Bootstrap model, in physics, using very general consistency criteria to determine the form of a quantum theory from some assumptions on the spectrum of particles
Operation Bootstrap ("Operación Manos a la Obra"), ambitious projects which industrialized Puerto Rico in the mid-20th century
Boostrap transaction or leveraged buyout, gaining control of a majority of a target company's equity through the use of borrowed money or debt

thanks tou Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping

programming 2 fabrication

a diffusion algorithm relaxes the nodes...
ribs in u and v direction with appropriate slots
have been automized through a home-made algorithm
producing 2d cad file for laser cutting or CNC milling machines

GA :: first approach

the algorithm will be developed to embrace co-evolution...
key concept to the research.

CA_Growth_Diamond Lattice

Crystal structure

In mineralogy and crystallography, a crystal structure is a unique arrangement of atoms in a crystal. A crystal structure is composed of a motif, a set of atoms arranged in a particular way, and a lattice. Motifs are located upon the points of a lattice, which is an array of points repeating periodically in three dimensions. The points can be thought of as forming identical tiny boxes, called unit cells, that fill the space of the lattice. The lengths of the edges of a unit cell and the angles between them are called the lattice parameters. The symmetry properties of the crystal are embodied in its space group. A crystal's structure and symmetry play a role in determining many of its properties, such as cleavage, electronic band structure, and optical properties.

Crystal growth

Some important features during growth are the arrangement, the origin of growth, the interface form (important for the driving force), and the final size. When origin of growth is only in one direction for all the crystals, it can result in the material becoming very anisotropic (different properties in different directions). The interface form determines the additional free energy for each volume of crystal growth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_structure

CA_v.01

ACADIA 2008 :: Silicon + Skin

about the conference

The Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) together with the Digital Design Consortium in the School of Architecture and Computer Science at the University of Minnesota will hold the ACADIA 2008 conference in Minneapolis. The upcoming conference entitled Silicon + Skin: Biological Processes and Computation fosters design work and research from the worlds of practice and academia which lie at the intersection between design, biology, and computation. More specifically, this conference seeks to identify and examine current trends in digital design technologies developed and applied in the framework of biologically inspired processes and digitally assisted sustainable design.

This call for papers has a deadline of April 18, 2008. Submit both an abstract and the full paper.

processing for architects

Embolado

progammin'

processing.org

programming in processing

route 66

[+]biotika is planning the next trip...

50words/hour!!! WR!

today was the day
really stressed and truly busy just with 250 words in about 5 hours
is this some kind of a record or what? i hope the RP will go through it was a good excersice though. well to tired for today...

Adaptive Growth at EMTECH

final presentation @ EMTECH in Architectural Association
Adaptive Growth of Fiber Composite Structures
jury
Michael Weinstock
Michael Hensel
Anchim Menges

(un) stationary GAS

submission for the programming course.
an agent basedbahavioural model was proposed
to be used as morphogenetic process. the presentation took place @ UEL
jury ::
Paul Coates
Chris Williams
Pablo Miranda
Christian Derix

v::or::noi

In general, the set of all points closer to a point c of S than to any other point of S is the interior of a (in some cases unbounded) convex polytope called the Dirichlet domain or Voronoi cell for c. The set of such polytopes tesselates the whole space, and is the Voronoi tessellation corresponding to the set S. If the dimension of the space is only 2, then it is easy to draw pictures of Voronoi tessellations, and in that case they are sometimes called Voronoi diagrams. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voronoi_diagram

swarm001

programming agents to be attracted by several

attractors creating an interesting behaviour

bio dsgn

a diffusion algorithm uses a bit of CA logic

relaxing surface

lavaV4 indoor flying machine

twothousandeight

09 days to go for the submission and nothing has been solidified yet. Still ideas from the neo materilaist philosophy, the works of cybernetics, the feilds of computation and especially of evolutionary computation [GA and ANN] and the work of the evolutionary architecture so far flow contsantly. more like quasi-causes just before their actualization find the channel to transfere the maximum possible information and energy.
09 days to go but lets be a bit more optimistic... hard work is all i can do.
wish eveyone happy new year...