Showing posts with label Multi-Disciplinary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Multi-Disciplinary. Show all posts

Thursday, September 27, 2012

The Center for Land Use Interpretation

The Center for Land Use Interpretation
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Occupying a bleached-out building on a busy street and marked only by a small logo, the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) has spent nearly 20 years redefining geography, and inviting the public to join them. This isn’t about mapping roads and elevations, but looking at more unconventional aspects of the land, from satellite dishes scanning the skies to hidden networks of oil extraction in our own neighbourhoods. CLUI cracks geography open to reveal its fascinating links to culture and history, and has made it an urgent, compelling subject attracting entirely new audiences….ICON MAGAZINE ONLINE | Centre for Land Use Interpretation: Being There  by Lyra Kilston

Monday, July 9, 2012

Bruce Munro’s LED Installations at Longwood Gardens

Bruce Munro’s stunning LED Installations light at Longwood Gardens via ArchDaily
Bruce Munro’s stunning LED Installations light up Longwood Gardens (3) Courtesy of Bruce Munro

Higgs boson: The poetry of subatomic particles

An elementary overview of 10 of the subatomic particles.

"The Higgs boson, which scientists at Cern appear to be homing in on after 45 years, gets its name, as everyone knows, from British physicist Peter Higgs, one of the first to propose its existence."


Monday, June 11, 2012

Pretty pictures: Can images stop data overload?

Pretty pictures: Can images stop data overload? via BBC News

About the visual presentation of large amounts of data instead of as text and numbers.  

"Data visualisation expert David McCandless's Information is Beautiful website showcases good examples of data design.  Visual.ly gives designers a platform to upload and showcase work as well as providing tools to create your own. Google Fusion and d3.js create simple visual representations of data, Quantum GIS and OpenHeatMap use maps and data together..."  

and Tableau Software:
Tableau Software

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Polysomatic Forms, Paul Schatz

The Invertible Cube
Through an artistic engagement with questions of space and the Zodiac discovered Paul Schatz 1929 Umstülpbarkeit the Platonic solids. In particular, worked out from these laws "Umstülpbare dice" and his very own rhythmic movement in the sequence basis, the entire ministry of Paul Schatz. order was a third cause of movement, the rhythmic and pulsating inversion (inversion) was found, and in addition to the two traditional basic movements, rotation (turn) and translation (rectilinear motion), set in place. It was found that this new movement makes numerous technical creations.


While studying the laws of inversion, Paul Schatz also discovered a large number of new and interesting solids created by the movements of the edges, corners, and diagonals of cubes. Paul Schatz called them time or polysomatic forms, as they render the movement of inversion visible in space. These forms - such as the inversion hall, the edge-cuboid, the pole-cuboid, or others - show some relation to living forms seen in nature. Time and again, Paul Schatz sought to apply these forms to architecture and his own architectonic designs.


New Scientist TV: Flying object propels itself by flipping inside out

Invented/discovered by Paul Schatz:
http://www.paul-schatz.ch/en/discoveries/

An Oloid




A rolling oloid on youtube

How to make an Oloid