Selected Tweets #20: Voxel Accretions, Logic Crystals & the Algorithmic Origins of Life
Sunday, 19 January 2014
Nerve Cells – Ramón y Cajal at Wunderkammer
Selected tweets from my Twitter stream: MrPrudence
RockGrowth RG5 & RockGrowth RG8 – Arik Levy. Polished mirror crystal sculptures.
Hagströmerbibliotekets Wunderkammer library of Medico-Historical illustrations. Botanical, Anatomical & Biological woodcuts, lithographs & prints.
Fluid simulation with pseudo Turing reaction diffusion [WebGL] – Felix Woitzel.
Accretor – Driessens & Verstappen. Accretion of small cubical voxels to generate 3D printed sculptures.
Game Of Life Extrusions – Paul Slocum. Baroque Lego-like constructions generated from Cellular Automata algorithms.
Taking Measures Across the American Landscape – James Corner & Alex Mclean. Map drawings & aerial schematics.
Creating Civilizations – Robert Strati. Architectural/mathematical/notational schematic fictions.
Taking Measures Across the American Landscape – James Corner & Alex Mclean
Readings
The Algorithmic Origins of Life – Walker & Davies [PDF]. On transitional DNA info systems as catalyst to emergence of life.
Fractal Cities: Geometry of Form/Function – Batty & Longley [PDF]. Urban self-similar morphologies.
Ars Combinatoria – Janet Zwelig. Mystical Systems, Procedural Art and the Computer.
Crystal Clear: Christine Wertheim interviews Shea Zellweger on logic alphabets & the crystallography of logic.
Ten Questions Concerning Generative Computer Art – Jon McCormack, Oliver Bown, Alan Dorin, Jonathan McCabe, Gordon Monro & Mitchell Whitelaw [PDF]. What’s it like to be a computer that makes art?
RockGrowth RG5 – Arik Levy
Minimal Surfaces as Self Organizing Systems – Vlad Tenu [PDF] Particle surfaces & tensegrity structures.
The Stone As A Witness Of Time – Rohip Gupta. ‘The etched memory of every single diurnal rotation of the planet’
Anthology of Chance Operations (1963) [PDF]. Chance operations, indeterminacy improvisation, diagrams and scores.
