Category Archives: Niccolo Marini

POSITIONS

By niccolo.marini@iaac.net | Published: March 14, 2013
GALAPAGOS RESPONSE
Evolutionary Computing is the collective name for a range of problem-solving techniques based on principles of biological evolution, such as natural selection and genetic inheritance.
HEMP BEHAVIOURS – SIMULATING TRAJECTORY
Speculative formation of natural path. A set of agents and attractors deforms hemp fibers in order to aggregates hitself and creates a fibrous connection in the space following the rules of attraction and repulsion. Forces are also applied to determinate the behaviours and simulating possible trajectories of the fibers. The drawing made with kangaroo describes the start fibers lines, the possible result and the final fibrous result.
VISUALIZATION
Through Galapagos we were able to identify two points on a surface created with Kangaroo. These two points have specfic characteristics regarding the altitude respect the xy plane, the inclination of the surface, its curvature and the distance from a point with coordinates x, y, z in the geometric space. These points were then placed in connection: one is the start point and the other one is the end of the path. The goal of the exercise is find the minimum path. Through two types of research we have been identied two minimal paths.

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TRACKING THE FLOWS

By niccolo.marini@iaac.net | Published: February 14, 2013

ANALYSIS OF DATA AND GEOLOCATION

Life and social environment is a dynamic force. It is an inspiration for understanding and working in different areas of architecture. This parametric field is not a static entity but a new vision that is in a constantly fluxing state of spatial relations via dynamic environmental forces. In this experiment I tracked myself with two different apps: Antimap and Mytracks. Those apps gave me data regarding latitude, longitude, speed and altitude and with Gh and Google Earth I visualized by flow diagrams. A path made every day on the motorbike, from the neighborhood of Gracia to Poble Nou, from my house to IaaC and vice versa,different flows depending on the speed, the green/red light and the traffc present. With different routes we can create a new landscape of Barcelona governed by fast flows of people that every day are moving in this organism.

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SIMULATING FLOWS

By niccolo.marini@iaac.net | Published: February 1, 2013

PRICE OF CANNABIS PRODUCTS AT RETAIL LEVEL 2010
MINIMUM, MAXIMUM,MEAN AND MODAL PRICE IN EUROS
The analysis is based on the published data of the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug addition.
The exercise topic is related to the main Design Studio theme as a research line on the political and social aspects of cannabis across Europe.
Cannabis history is a perfect example of the socio-political implications of material industry and its role in the evolution of fabrication technologies.
The analysis illustrates in different ways the minimum and maximum prices of the resin and herbal cannabis distribution around Europe.
The topic has been divided into several categories, according to the user’s everytime need.

Data: http://www.emcdda.europa.eu

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