“Since 2006, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been orbiting Mars, currently circling approximately 300 km (187 mi) above the Martian surface. On board the MRO is HiRISE, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, which has been photographing the planet for several years now at resolutions as fine as mere inches per pixel.” boston.com/bigpicture via flight404@twitter
by Lucas Maassen. “The physical shape of the Brainwave Sofa by Lucas Maassen and Dries Verbruggen from Unfold is determined by a 3 second wave of Alpha brain activity captured as an elektro-encefalogram (EEG) using a set of electrodes connected to the head. [..] The data is represented as a 3D data landscape by a computer application for visualizing neuro-feedback” via infosthetics
by Near Future Laboratory. “These images are from a series of generative, algorithmic sketches to describe what Los Angeles might look like as an ‘augmented reality.’”
“The Dixon Land Imprinter is a very simple machine consisting of only two moving parts - the imprinting roller and the seedbox agitator.” imprinting
“The roller drops seeds onto the soil surface and imbeds them in the imprint surfaces. The imprinter forms interconnected water shedding and absorbing v-pockets, which function as rain fed micro-irrigation system.” via infranetlab, “strategies against desertification”
“NASA and Japan released a new digital topographic map of Earth Monday that covers more of our planet than ever before. The map was produced with detailed measurements from NASA’s Terra spacecraft.
The new global digital elevation model of Earth was created from nearly 1.3 million individual stereo-pair images collected by the Japanese Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or Aster, instrument aboard Terra.”
image: Himalayan glaciers in Bhutan. download the Aster global digital elevation model at Aster G-DEM
Subdivision: Goldenwood Shores
by Ross Racine, 2009. Models for planned communities, views of fictional suburbs, referencing the computer as a tool for urban planning.
“Drawn freehand directly on a computer and printed on a high-end inkjet printer. works do not contain photographs nor scanned material.”
tutorial, demo and source code by geisswerks. “In brief, the technique uses several octaves of noise (via 3D textures), the marching cubes technique, and the Stream Out functionality offered in DirectX 10 to create 3D blocks of terrain (at varying sizes and levels of detail, depending on where the camera is) to synthesize an entire fractal world “
via v3ga@delicious
by RGBA. winner of 4096 byte demo competition of Breakpoint 2009, held in Bingen, Germany. written in assembler, rendered in directx, realtime.
by field.io, marcus wendt and vera-maria glahn. an experimental short film, 12mins. generative strategies have been used to create a surreal and supernatural landscape.
via www.field.io
“[bracket] is a collaboration of Archinect and InfraNet Lab, and is composed of a collection of diverse editors and an open-source contributing membership. bracket is an annual publication documenting issues overlooked yet central to our cultural milieu that have evolved out of the new disciplinary territory at the intersection of architecture, landscape, urbanism and, now, the internet.”
image: GEOtube, vertical salt deposit growth system. contribution to the first issue of bracket on the topic of farming.
a collection of patterns and graphical landscapes kept in pure black and white.
“Guilloché patterns are spirograph-like curves that frame a curve within an inner and outer envelope curve. They are used on banknotes, securities, and passports worldwide for added security against counterfeiting.” via wolfram Math World
il muro del suono #6
by Andrea Galvani, 2006. c-print on aluminium.
by rahel hegnauer, 2004. “Ein verspiegelter Körper ist in der Ebene vor der Gletscherzunge des Morteratsch platziert worden. Für die Dauer der Sommersaison steht die temporäre Skulptur im Geröll des Hochtals und widerspiegelt ihre Umgebung.”
(via alaskaneyes)
“Japanese architect Kimihiko Okada has created an Aluminium Landscape, a 6.5 metre high installation made of aluminium foil. Supported by an internal steel structure and covering an area of 902 square metres, the project is currently [Sep. 2008] on show outside the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Japan.”
via Dezeen
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