Sunday, May 2, 2010

Experiment 2: 5 images of Sandbox Model


The Model was divided into two labs. Darwin's lab being located on the bottom level and Nicole's lab located on the top. The idea was to show an evolving building for Darwins lab appropriate to his study field, whilst keeping inside the parameters of 9 rectangular prisms inclusive of Nicole's lab. So I designed a simple model where it would show one rectangle adjacent to a larger one which was adjacent to a further bigger one, simply representing evolution through size of the object.
In terms of Nicole's laboratory due to her profession inside of solar technology i decided to dedicate two whole prisms to represent solar panels, and just a large space for her to work. The panels are illuminated by the blue light.


Here depicted in the blue glow is the meeting area, Darwin would travel up via the ramp joining the two models and Nicole would simple travel downwards to this balcony.
The entire model is integrated with the landform ramp, where the ramp changes, manipulates and alters from one entrance to the other, signifying the "struggle for existence" however no matter which way you would travel, that is from on top level to bottom level it would seem to "propagate its new and modified form"

Experiment 2: 18 Axonometric Designs

Experiment 2: 36 textures

Monday, April 26, 2010

Electroliquid Aggregation Quote

"As many more individuals of each species are born it could enable people to read, keep informed about the world; and consequently enable a frequently recurring struggle for existence to propagate its new and modified form."

Black Box Slide

This slide stood out from the rest to me as from the disarray of shapes, shades, sizes of font and texture, strangely enough a weird sense of grid structure or link is subtly established. When observed from a closer point of view the boxes containing text all are linked together through one line travelling from one box to another. The lines suggest continuity from one textbox to another, perhaps symbolising a journey from which the viewer may travel or see. The jagged lines and illegible font partially obstructing the journeying line exemplifies a complicated, journey through which the viewer is guided through. However what I dislike about the slide is the utility of the design embellishments. Are the lines, circles colour shading all just there for the sake of design or do they have any purpose is a question which I ask, and one which I am not able to answer.



Sunday, April 25, 2010

Exp 2 - Quotes


Nicole Kuepper

"It could enable people to read at night, keep informed about the world through radio and television and refrigerate life-saving vaccines" - Nicole Kuepper
http://www.thecommonwealth.org/news/34580/34581/221132/100310cwweekquotes.htm

Charles Darwin
"As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form."

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, 1859

Stephen Hawking

As we shall see, the concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe. This was first pointed out by St. Augustine. When asked: What did God do before he created the universe? Augustine didn't reply: He was preparing Hell for people who asked such questions. Instead, he said that time was a property of the universe that God created, and that time did not exist before the beginning of the universe.

Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (New York: Bantam, 1988), p. 8


http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/scientist/stephen_hawking_god_religion.html

Saturday, April 10, 2010