janine benyus: biomimicry in action

Janine Benyus delves further into the design work inspired by biology, and through the creation of AskNature.org is helping to disseminate biomimetically inspired information online (click on the top image for a link to AskNature.org).

detroit_soundscape

-Images from Detroit Soundscape, where the landscape is created via acoustical analysis of the site and implementation of a barnacle-like algorithm which covers the surface in a quadratically diffused pattern. The growth pattern is created from an aggregation l-system working in sequence with collision detection, quadratic random number generator, attraction points, and acoustic reflection angle. [...]

Detroit Soundscape

andromeda strain

-Amsterdam-based photographer Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk has created a series titled The Andromeda Strain that focuses more on the notion of discovery than the place itself. The images conjure up thoughts of a space or time perhaps untouched or undiscovered by humans. These constructed images, with no Photoshop, of everyday objects refer to biological, scientific, or [...]

archimorph + d3: natural systems

Exploration of natural systems from the microscopic to the universal unearths vast design potential for overlaying cultural, ecological, and life cycle flows toward determining new architectonic strategies. The d3 Natural Systems Competition for 2010 invites architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore the potential of analyzing, documenting, and deploying nature-based influences in architecture, interiors, [...]

engineering and evolution

sociable weaver

The Sociable Weaver or Social Weaver (Philetairus socius) is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Philetairus. It is found in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa.

the danger of science denial

acoustic aggregation

- L-System aggregation based on acoustic reflection and quadratic diffusion properties of local context. Algorithms within the script calculates optimal acoustic reflective surfaces for the given inputs of source and receiver points. More information on project will be released upon completion of final iteration.

Mechanic Autopoesis

-article via fractal ontology. Process In Mechanism and Biological Explanation [Maturana 1970], Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela argue that machines and biological forms are very closely related — so closely, in fact, that biologists can reasonably claim living systems are machines. This is not meant merely as a pedagogical metaphor, but rather as a rigorous [...]