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Labbook – Grasswall – pp. 22-33
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SELF ORGANIZING BRANCHING_experiment 02
For this experiment the materials used were, wax, plaster and soapy water+wax. The mappings were a 2×2 and a 3x3cm grid and the length was 40cm.
Being able to use materials that can freeze the moment makes it easier to analise the results but on the other hand it loses the on going possibility of self organizing over and over again.
Because of technical difficulties it was impossible to dip the sample more than once, and that made the results very unstable. I’m now working on a new apparatus that will allow even longer samples to be dipped many times giving them more stability.
SELF ORGANIZING BRANCHING_experiment 01
The first experiment uses soapy water and wool threads to simulate self organizing branching. Different mapping and different lengths were used to test the conditions in which the branching happens.
Phototropes
Phototropes are a type of B.E.A.M. robotics that are both solar powered and light seeking. Phototropes reactions to light and shadows will be traced during the day in Barcelona public spaces as system of mapping human presence. Their movement will be tracked throughout the day on a substrate using a marking device, such as paint brush. This visualization will reveal something with is seemingly unnoticed – shadows.