This is a video of Thomas Heatherwick’s UK Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo. Well conceived, well executed. Good stuff: (Slow loading but wait for it)
The Third and the Seventh
via BLDG BLOG.
The third and the seventh is a visually amazing 13 minutes of architecture. VERY hard to believe that it entirely computer generated. I’ll leave the commentary to Geoff Manaugh.
Mandelbulbs
via SEED
Some downright awesome renderings of the “Mandelbulb” or 3D Mandelbrot Set.
As hard as I try to resist my predilection for all things fractal, these are really great and I have to respect the effort to work out the not-so-intuitive math behind them.
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The original article here.
Fractal Circle Packing
via kottke, this fractal:
is being explored by Fred Scharmen. It’s so simple, yet so complicated. I’m suspicious that it’s analog to something else but I don’t see what. Hmmmmm.
Book of Odds
The Book of Odds, aside from being a pretty awesome collection of really unusable numbers, has a well crafted but ultimately gratuitous network interface that allows for browsing through their data:
I respect the impetus here but I suspect that there may be a better way to get this kind of data across. Specifically, choosing parameters and narrowing down your search á la e-bay. As I am presently narrowing down options for a network visualization project, I’m particularly sensitive to this sort of thing at the moment. Stay tuned for updates on what my project ends up as.