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Seed Cathedral

admin — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:19:00 +0000

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

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:34:35 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:30:52 +0000

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.

and

The original article here.

Fractal Circle Packing

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:44:38 +0000

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

admin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:57:45 +0000

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.