By the early 1990s, remarkable advancements in two commercial 3–D modeling software packages, Alias/Wavefront and Softimage, offered revolutionary possibilities for architectural design. Alias, the forerunner of todays Maya, was developed for the automobile industry to model complex car parts, and it got architects talking when filmmakers used it to create the 3–D special effects in [...]
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Dynamics and technology
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Flesh experiments
Reading this: Two friends who wished to converse at a distance proceeded thus: A piece of skin was cut from the arm or breast of each, and those fragments were “transplanted,” so that either party had a portion of the cuticle of the other engrafted on his person. When separated from each other, at a [...]
Brian Eno, complexity and universality
Of Eno’s technology projects that have fallen by the wayside, the one he would most like to revive is the idea of self-generating musical systems, which he began studying in the 1980s. The premise is to create a music-making machine, whether it is as simple as a wind chime or as complex as computer software. [...]
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“The Balloon the the Mind”
HANDS, do what you’re bid; Bring the balloon of the mind That bellies and drags in the wind Into its narrow shed. – Yeats, W. B. The Wild Swans at Coole. New York: The Macmillan company, 1919; Bartleby.com, 1999. www.bartleby.com/148/. [Date of Printout]. A concise and pertinent contemporary view of the mind/body dualism.
