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subtilitas: Roger Boltshauser - School renovation, Adliswil...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:35:15 +0100

subtilitas:

Roger Boltshauser - School renovation, Adliswil 2005 (inspiration from here?).

colchrishadfield: Sunglint catches the irrigation canals of...

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 09:30:20 +0100

colchrishadfield:

Sunglint catches the irrigation canals of these Mexican farmers.

architectureofdoom: Aldo van Eyck in Previ, Lima. The polygonal...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:56:01 +0000

architectureofdoom:

Aldo van Eyck in Previ, Lima.

The polygonal plan geometry failed to discourage the gradual occupation of patios, which were intended to be left free in order to maintain natural ventilation and illumination in all rooms.

Photo

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:44:13 +0000

fuckyounofuckme: The poster next to it is about thinking inside...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:55:23 +0000

fuckyounofuckme:

The poster next to it is about thinking inside the box.

ilovecharts: goodgraph: Love Polygons via camerasaremyeyes

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:07:46 +0000

ilovecharts:

goodgraph: Love Polygons

via camerasaremyeyes

speakingparts: The Greek film director Alexis DAMIANOS dancing©...

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:17:33 +0000

speakingparts:

The Greek film director Alexis DAMIANOS dancing

© Nikos Economopoulos/Magnum Photos

ikenbot: Vortex Tied in Knots A UChicago physics team has...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:27:08 +0000

ikenbot:

Vortex Tied in Knots

A UChicago physics team has created the first knotted vortex in a lab, untangling deep questions

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University of Chicago physicists have succeeding in creating a vortex knot—a feat akin to tying a smoke ring into a knot. Linked and knotted vortex loops have existed in theory for more than a century, but creating them in the laboratory had previously eluded scientists.

Vortex knots should, in principle, be persistent, stable phenomena. “The unexpected thing is that they’re not,” said Dustin Kleckner, a postdoctoral scientist at UChicago’s James Franck Institute. “They seem to break up in a particular way. They stretch themselves, which is a weird behavior.”

This behavior culminates in what the UChicago researchers call “reconnection events.” In these events, the loops elongate, begin to circulate in opposite directions, move toward each other and collide (the reconnection). Parts of the vortices then annihilate other parts, changing their configuration from linked or knotted into one that is unlinked or unknotted.

Kleckner and William Irvine, assistant professor in physics, report their findings on the creation and dynamics of vortex rings in Nature Physics, published online Sunday, March 3. Their work relates to deep questions in a variety of physics subfields, including turbulence, plasma physics, ordinary fluids and the more exotic superfluids. Knotted structures are thought to occur in all these phenomena but are difficult or impossible to observe.

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In future research, Irvine and Kleckner hope to perform some of their experiments at larger scale to investigate whether size would lend greater stability to vortex rings. They also are investigating the fine-scale features of the vortices and whether “knottedness” is, or can be, conserved in fine-scale twisting of the vortex loops. “This is not something we presently know,” Kleckner said.

(via Vortex loops could untie knotty physics problems)

wonderfulambiguity: Ansel Easton Adams, Housing Development,...

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:14:15 +0000

wonderfulambiguity:

Ansel Easton Adams, Housing Development, South San Francisco, ca. 1964

thingsorganizedneatly: Christodoulos Panayiotou, Never...

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:50:25 +0000

thingsorganizedneatly:

Christodoulos Panayiotou, Never Land, from a newspaper photo archive in Cyprus.

infiniteinterior: Optical Calibration Targets (via i like this...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:16:49 +0000

infiniteinterior:

Optical Calibration Targets (via i like this art)

vanished: Michael Wolf - Architecture of Density

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:17:50 +0000

vanished:

Michael Wolf - Architecture of Density

urbanination: Chicago’s grid in 1989.

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:08:30 +0000

urbanination:

Chicago’s grid in 1989.

obsessedbythegrid: Sol Lewitt, The FieldWorker, 1975.

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:04:38 +0000

obsessedbythegrid:

Sol Lewitt, The FieldWorker, 1975.

jtotheizzoe: The Genius of J.S. Bach’s “Crab Canon” Visualized...

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:02:42 +0000

jtotheizzoe:

The Genius of J.S. Bach’s “Crab Canon” Visualized on a Möbius Strip

Holy harpsichord.

We know J.S. Bach was a genius composer. Certainly among the top two or three that have ever lived by most measures. Even knowing that, I was not prepared for the awesomeness you are about to see.

This is the first canon from Bach’s Musical Offering, known as the “crab canon”. The first level of awesome is when you find out that it was designed to be played backwards and forwards. But lots of people have done that … big deal, right?

Then you find out that it was written to be played backwards and forwards at the same time. That’s pretty amazing, but again, since it’s not that long I wouldn’t classify it as an Earth-shattering epiphany.

BUT THEN … graphic artist Jos Leys (who made the video), show how this Bach piece is basically the musical version of a Möbius strip.

Mind. Blown.

(Read more at Open Culture)

Video

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:36:48 +0000

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bd/JohnColtraneWiki.jp...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:05:00 +0000

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bd/JohnColtraneWiki.jpg

architectureofdoom: Villa Portales, Santiago de Chile, 1950s

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 15:04:33 +0000

architectureofdoom:

Villa Portales, Santiago de Chile, 1950s

monnikfeed: Major Restraints to Development (via Unknown....

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 15:02:36 +0000

monnikfeed:

Major Restraints to Development

(via Unknown. Architectural Review v.154 n.920 Oct 1973: 247 | RNDRD)

landofmaps: Fuller Map of Air Traffic from the Dubai [3000 x...

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:01:48 +0000

landofmaps:

Fuller Map of Air Traffic from the Dubai [3000 x 1860]