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Monthly Archives: November 2014
On Growth and Form- D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
On Growth and Form, D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson In this text Thompson combines Biology, science and Math ideas together, in order to present his theory of transformation in nature. Thompson writes about the morphogenesis, the process by which patterns are formed in plants, animals and human beings. His goal is “To study inter-relations of growth and form, and [...]
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DIGITAL LOGICS – “On Growth and Form”
“On Growth and Form” by D’Arcy Wentworth Thomson In Thomson’s book “On Growth and Form”, he looks at the way natural living things, such as vegetation and animals, and why they take the form they do by growing and changing. While at first the forms are described with words, they later are represented with mathematical and graphical [...]
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Digital Logics / T6
Parametricism + Urbanism
T4 – Bottom Up
Reading Text: Emergence / Steven Johnson It is rightly said that we are at the highest point of understanding our universe. Our knowledge about this sphere of activity that we are centered on and the totality of all the matter and energy that exists in the vastness is still limited yet we make fun of [...]