Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Create My Own Belt Buckles

The ideal and natural materials and natural materials clinamen


Lucretius Carus wrote about two thousand years ago " id facit exiguum clinamen principiorum / region loci nec nec tempore certain degree," arguing that in practice a small variation, or variation, in nature, allows the very nature of "work." It 's like saying, essentially, that nature in designing moves to infinitesimal variations and tends to perfect: the famous phrase of the proverbial "Natura non facit saltus. And the uncertainty time and space does it mean, with our eye view of scholars of the materials that you can never be sure what the exact nature intended produce. In practice, nature works through endless variations of the same approximate shape. This teaches us that there are flaws, but rather infinite micro-changes of the same shape, that only our cultural restrictions are perceived as abnormal. We observe, for example, this micrograph that represents the sections of several fibers okra Bahn, a plant native to the Indian peninsula and the Middle East (Lady's finger in English): There are two fibers are exactly alike, and even there are two cells are exactly alike, But we can imagine che ci si muova per infinite approssimazioni. E' per questo che le strutture naturali si descrivono meglio con la teoria dei frattali che con la geometria euclidea, che invece si adatta perfettamente a quanto è stato progettato dall'uomo. Questo dipende dalla struttura gerarchica dei materiali naturali, dove la linea retta, base della teorizzazione di Euclide, è ottenuta soltanto approssimativamente per sovrapposizione e giustapposizione di strutture a spirale e quindi, in realtà, non esiste.

Friday, January 9, 2009

Degen Erative Disc Disease 5th,6th And 7th

The shape and function ...


In realtà, una delle cose più difficili non è trovare la risposta in natura, ma probabilmente è capire la domanda che genera quella risposta. Il primo approccio, Perhaps the most obvious, is to look at the form it has a natural object, such as sensor bell cricket, which is seen in the figure, is a motion sensor (the small cones in the background are chemical sensors: photo taken at the confocal microscope and Emma Johnson, a researcher at the University of Reading).
The shape depends on the function? Yes, sure, but certainly a complex and still unclear. To complicate things, it takes the fact that the same form can be many functions, including different. The pineapple fiber, shown in a previous post, has a shape quite similar, inclusive of a large central gap. However, the two species have nothing in common. This suggests that the form can be misleading. Slowly, you begin to connect the shapes of plants with stress, especially mechanical, the plant suffers (it is a part of the study of morphogenesis).
Even though little is known about why many features of animal species, just as the sensors of insects, are "designed" that way. Speaking of design, the "concept" that the nature of development is still very cryptic, but one thing is certain, often works best because of the merits of the geometry is adopted instinctively, or rather a result of evolution.

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Financial Spread Betting

The Fragmented Orchestra






AboutThe Project: "The Fragmented Orchestra is a huge distributed musical structure modelled on the firing of the human brain's neurons. The Fragmented Orchestra connects 24 public sites across the UK to form a tiny networked cortex, which will adapt, evolve and trigger site-specific sounds via FACT in Liverpool. Each of the sites has a soundbox installed, which will stream human-made and elemental sounds from the site via an artificial neuron to one of 24 speakers in FACT. The sound will only be transmitted when the neuron fires. A firing event will cause fragments of sound to be relayed to the gallery and will also be communicated to the cortex as a whole. The combined sound of the 24 speakers at the gallery will be continuously transmitted back to the sites and to each of the 24 sites. The sounds of The Fragmented Orchestra will vary according to location; wind over Black Fell , inner city traffic, chanting from sports stadia and the chatter of migrating birds arriving for the winter will be combined with incidental and performed sounds from members of the public. The public, invited to play the instrument at the 24 sites, will be able to hear the effect their playing has on the overall composition of the piece at each site and at FACT. As members of the public use the instrument they will become both player and audience of a vast and evolving musical composition extended across the UK. The Fragmented Orchestra — conceived by artist Jane Grant , physicist, musician and composer John Matthias and composer Nick Ryan — is the winner of the PRS Foundation New Music Award. This award is the most financially prestigious for new music in the UK and has been likened to the Turner Prize for music". (Dal sito "The Fragmented Orchestra")

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