"the Sun in more active times" http://www.boston.com/

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/the_sun.html

Roger Penrose and the Quanglement on eskesthai blog

Order and Chaos, by Escher
(lithograph, 1950)
 eskesthai.blogspot.com

Penrose Tiles

www.uwsp.edu/.../dutch/symmetry/penrose.htm

"Live with micro-algae" from Next nature.net

"The Eco Pod is a new method to produce alternative energy, clean and renewable, which operates in old, abandoned buildings. Pending an eventual recovery, these buildings become vertical bioreactor that supports micro-algae which produce energy for the city."
thanks to next nature

"QuickSmart Homes / Innovative Sustainable Solutions To The Built Environment"

design

tour
 


sales and inquiries based in Australia

"The system in motion

The QSH System has a considerable lower completed building cost when compared with other modular system derived buildings; and also offers far greater levels of robustness, flexibility and cost-effectiveness than any other system of modular technology currently available."

Mathematica - wolfram demonstrations

AlgorithmicArchitectureWithCellularAutomata


3DTotalisticCellularAutomata


PhaseTransitionsIn2DCellularAutomataA3DView



GameOfLifeIn3DLayers/
thanks to http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/index.html

hyperbolic tessellations

"Don Hatch has done a beautiful treatment on hyperbolic tessellations. 2D space tessellated by regular seven-sided polygons"
www.superliminal.com/geometry/geometry.htm

Honeycomb (geometry) From Wikipedia

Uniform honeycombs

A uniform honeycomb is a honeycomb in Euclidean 3-space composed of uniform polyhedral cells, and having all vertices the same (i.e. it is vertex-transitive or isogonal). There are 28 convex examples^[1], also called the Archimedean honeycombs. Of these, just one is regular and one quasiregular:

• Regular honeycomb: Cubes.
• Quasiregular honeycomb: Octahedra and tetrahedra

Space-filling polyhedra^[2]

A honeycomb having all cells identical within its symmetries is said to be cell-transitive or isochoric. A cell is said to be a space-filling polyhedron. Well-known examples include:

• The regular packings^[3] of cubes, hexagonal prisms, and triangular prisms.
• The uniform packing of truncated octahedra^[4].
• The rhombic dodecahedral honeycomb. ^[5]
• The squashed (rhombic) dodecahedron honeycomb ^[6].
• The rhombo-hexagonal dodecahedron honeycomb ^[7].
• A packing of any cuboid, rhombic hexahedron or parallelepiped.

A dodecahedral honeycomb in hyperbolic space
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeycomb_%28geometry%29

"Celosia Residence by MVRDV and Blanca Lleó" - de Zeen

"Dutch architects MVRDV in collaboration with Madrid architect Blanca Lleó have completed a social housing project in Madrid, Spain. "
thanks to http://www.dezeen.com/2009/07/16/celosia-residence-by-mvrdv-and-blanca-lleo/

bank in Oslo, Norway, designed by Dutch architects MVRDV.

"The pixelated design adapts to the urban context and combines an efficient and flexible internal organisation, based on small-scale working entities, with a variety of specific communal spaces, a sheltered public passage and respect for urban view lines."
Thanks to  www.dezeen.com

SCI-Arc EXHIBITION: IwamotoScott Architecture: Voussoir Cloud

"Voussoir Cloud intentionally confuses the structural and material strategies. By beginning with a material operation, the design process is focused on calibrating the relationship of digital model to physical result. Working closely with IwamotoScott, SCI-Arc students will assist in the design, construction and installation of the work."
http://www.bustler.net/index.php/event/sci_arc_exhibition_iwamotoscott_architecture_voussoir_cloud/

Grasshopper Scripting Gallery

good site
http://en.wiki.mcneel.com/default.aspx/McNeel/GrassHopperGallery.html

rhino « [n]Codon

"Hugo Häring – Lamella Roof
Posted in examples by peterguthrie on November 3, 2008

A 3d diversion (away from proper work) inspired by fascinating photos on flickr by seier+seier+seier of an agricultural building by German architect Hugo Häring from the 1920s.

Modeled in rhino3d using panelingtools."
thanks https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPI3-KeG9B3YZpany24W6vCCjM3KEH75RI4FpR0_zHUcT0fSvUSSQPQwRHU4jH2s6OEljGmzpLwUAGZKle9htPMMli08ZN7q4LDS28E3aM6_PW4BU_1iiq_-1ReBKGLriO1dZq0jOJsm5-/s1600/ualogo_mono1.gif

MODULAR COIN OPERATED NEWS RACKS

"Modular units by Sho-Rack® can be tailored to meet your needs by displaying a variety of configurations.  Compact and eye pleasing, for indoor or outdoor locations. Complete "

 
thanks to http://www.shorack.com

Beautiful maths behind a beautiful ass?

thanks http://gammagoblin.blogspot.com/2006_06_01_archive.html