6
Apr
2010
more normal than most
I was always a bit confused by one of the lyrics of Tricky’s Struglin’ – “I think I’m more normal than most”.
I’ve just finished the very short introduction to statistics, and now I get it!
So the X axis is something, like cleanliness or laziness, and the Y axis is how many people are that clean or lazy.
If the distribution looks like this, then if you are in the middle, then you are more normal than most!
23
Mar
2010
smart geometry 2010 – in progress
It is all in full swing, but here are some amazing pictures from SG this year!
6
Mar
2010
Smart Geometry, TU Delft and Pirates
In November there was a Smart Geometry event at TU Delft. It was a really interesting event as it wasn’t platform specific, so people were hacking away on whatever they fancied (GC, Grasshopper, Processing, C#).
Rudi Stouffs (check out some of his work here) videoed some of the evening presentations.
There are some great talks in this bunch, Sam Joyce’s is particularly worth a go for a bit of a reflective view on structural engineering!
Mine is a dramatic speed up of the talk I gave at UTS last year. If you are interested, the slides are here.
5
Mar
2010
Livescribe & Illustrator
I got a bit sleepy in a meeting the other day and I started drawing. It was one of those darkened room affairs with an impeding food coma, so i needed something to ease the pain.
17
Feb
2010
emergent voronoi – a la Coates
Click for another pattern.
Alasdair says “This is an implementation of an emergent Voronoi diagram, following an algorithm presented in programming.architecture by Paul Coates. It adapts the algorithm slightly to give a good convergence. Coates simply says “move away from the nearest node”, which is wonderfully elegant!“
It is an impressive and clear way of explainign what is really going on behind all those funny shapes people make.