This definition takes a surface like a skyscraper shell and draws the floor slabs based of free height between floors and thickness of slabs. Outputs total floor area, surface area to volume ratio and the contour curves for each floor. Comments and improvements are welcomed. Dowload
Margaret Wertheim is an Australian science writer and among other things she is cofounder of the Institute for Figuring, an educational organization dedicated to enhancing the public understanding of figures and figuring techniques. The Hyperbolic crochet coral reef project is based on the work of Daina Taimina from the department of Mathematics at Cornell, and is the main topic in this interesting talk at TED 2009.
Researching just a little more I ended out coming across crocheted Möbius Scarfs and Klein Bottle hats… I can see this becoming a fashion between architects, physicists and mathematicians.
Further: Making Mathematics with Needlework: Ten Papers and Ten Projects by sarah-marie belcastro and Carolyn Yackel
Music was written on pieces of paper.
Midi was born.
We started writing music in electronic sheets. The bulky synthesizers became smaller and smaller and finally they live inside the personal computer.
Computers became fast enough to allow anyone to make music with the help of a digital audio workstation package (DAW) such as Cubase or FL Studio.
Recently a friend of mine studying composition in Holland told me how most of his work is being done with Csounds. Music is entirely written by programming. You define the “instrument” and “the score” itself.
Graphic designers are also becoming more and more fed up with the limits of the packaged software studios and are looking away into new tools that promise a new level of freedom such as Processing. And information architects are using I have no idea which tools to make complex network information visually accessible.
It is interesting to see how architecture is not alone in this new paradigm in which process is the core moment of design.
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