Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Bacterial Colony Growth and its Spatial Implications
Bacterial Colony Growth and its Spatial Implications
Bacterial Colony Morphology
In science bacteria is often identified by its colonies' morphology. Colonies are defines as such by several physical attributes:
Shape, Size, Edge Condition, Chromogenesis [pigment], Opacity, Elevation, Surface Condition, Consistency [material consistency], Odor, and Effect on Growing Medium.
Bateria colonies can be any size but usually done become visible to the human eye unless they are around 1mm. Colonies larger than 5mm are likely to be motile. [Motile: the ability to move sponbtaneiously and actively, consuming energy in the process] Motile colonies often have irregular edge conditions. Non-motile colonies are circular in nature due to the central method of infection of the growing medium. Due to the cellular nature of bacteria and the rapid growth of said bacteria gene sharing [transfer] is common place and allows for bacteria to apadt rapidly to changing conditions.
Implications to Design
The implications of bacteria growth to architectural thinking at first glance is farely straight forward. Colonies are the aggrigation of bacteria to create a larger working "organism." But unlike building materials [bricks, stones, wood, etc] the bacteria is a living system with its own agenda. This brings up the question as to why would something with its own self interest come together in the form of a colony. Colony life allows for better adaptation to the adverse growing conditions. "It can be viewed as the action of an interplay between the micro-level [the individual bacterium] and the macro-level [the colony] in the determination of the emerging pattern." 1 [Abstract]
The architecture which embodies this should evolve the idea not only of the interaction between cells, but of space, program, etc. Communication between bricks, feedback is given from one member to the next in a way the speaks to the transfer of condition on said brick from not only its neighboring construction materials but spatial and progromatic situation. This new aggrigation of cells that continually feed information back and forth becomes the driving force for spatial organization only when it is directly informed by the program.
http://herbie.ucsd.edu/~levine/
http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/~smaloy/MicrobialGenetics/topics/genetic-exchange/exchange/exchange.html
Bacterial Colony Morphology
In science bacteria is often identified by its colonies' morphology. Colonies are defines as such by several physical attributes:
Shape, Size, Edge Condition, Chromogenesis [pigment], Opacity, Elevation, Surface Condition, Consistency [material consistency], Odor, and Effect on Growing Medium.Bateria colonies can be any size but usually done become visible to the human eye unless they are around 1mm. Colonies larger than 5mm are likely to be motile. [Motile: the ability to move sponbtaneiously and actively, consuming energy in the process] Motile colonies often have irregular edge conditions. Non-motile colonies are circular in nature due to the central method of infection of the growing medium. Due to the cellular nature of bacteria and the rapid growth of said bacteria gene sharing [transfer] is common place and allows for bacteria to apadt rapidly to changing conditions.
Implications to Design
The implications of bacteria growth to architectural thinking at first glance is farely straight forward. Colonies are the aggrigation of bacteria to create a larger working "organism." But unlike building materials [bricks, stones, wood, etc] the bacteria is a living system with its own agenda. This brings up the question as to why would something with its own self interest come together in the form of a colony. Colony life allows for better adaptation to the adverse growing conditions. "It can be viewed as the action of an interplay between the micro-level [the individual bacterium] and the macro-level [the colony] in the determination of the emerging pattern." 1 [Abstract]
The architecture which embodies this should evolve the idea not only of the interaction between cells, but of space, program, etc. Communication between bricks, feedback is given from one member to the next in a way the speaks to the transfer of condition on said brick from not only its neighboring construction materials but spatial and progromatic situation. This new aggrigation of cells that continually feed information back and forth becomes the driving force for spatial organization only when it is directly informed by the program.
http://herbie.ucsd.edu/~levine/
Communication, regulation and control during complex patterning of bacterial coloniesby:E Ben-Jacob, O Shochet, A Tenenbaum, N Cohe, A Czirók, T Vicsek, Fractals, Vol. 2 (1994), pp. 15-44.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Grasshopper 001
This file moves the boxes around using a distance logic formula and the sin and cos formulas to calculate location.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Tactical Landscaping
Lucasarts is coming out with a new game call Fracture where you are able to change the landscape while playing.
I don't have sound so i have no idea what they are saying but the video is kinda interesting just for the interactive terrain aspect.
http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/15184
I don't have sound so i have no idea what they are saying but the video is kinda interesting just for the interactive terrain aspect.
http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/15184
Guerrilla Gardening
http://www.guerrillagardening.org/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/magazine/08guerrilla-t.html?scp=1&sq=guerilla%20gardening&st=cse
In Tokyo where they don't have the soil to grow in the guerrillas use pots.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/magazine/08guerrilla-t.html?scp=1&sq=guerilla%20gardening&st=cse
In Tokyo where they don't have the soil to grow in the guerrillas use pots.
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