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Five Finger Exercises
Written and spoken numbers are represented differently. In English numbers are usually written with Arabic numerals or as a transliteration of the spoken version, for example 342 or three hundred and forty two. Rod counting provides a written representation of … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Brain Physiology, Enumeration
Tagged Architecture, Brain Physiology, Enumeration, Logic
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Chocolate Fireguards
A very short post on Chocolate Fireguards, which as the name suggests are objects which subvert their own function. The first example is a real fireguard, though not one actually made of chocolate. It is an example of an object … Continue reading
Posted in Aesthetics, Architecture, Brain Physiology, Design, Design Methods, Logic, Objects
Tagged Architecture, Brain Physiology, Classification, Design, Design Methods, Logic, Objects
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Subitising
The school report of Emily, our 4 year old grandchild, said that she could subitise up to the number 6, and I had no idea what this meant. Subitising is a technical term that comes from the Latin root subito … Continue reading
Posted in Aesthetics, Architecture, Brain Physiology, Design, Design Methods, Enumeration, Geometry, Randomness
Tagged Architecture, Brain Physiology, Design, Enumeration, Geometry, Randomness
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Severely Constrained Design
When a design problem is severely constrained it becomes possible to generate all solutions to the problem. That is, it is possible to close out the problem. In the late 1960s and early 1970s the design of British Local Authority 2 and 3 … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Design, Design Methods, Enumeration, Housing
Tagged Architecture, Design, Design Methods, Enumeration, Housing
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Archetypes and Visual Pangrams
This follows an earlier post on Visual Pangrams here Pangrams To recap, ordinary pangrams use every letter of the alphabet at least once to form a more or less meaningful sentence, for instance: – Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz … Continue reading
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Audio Illusion
Observation The following diagrams illustrate the way, until recently, our television was setup. The television and speakers were connected to a Media Centre, with both Speakers markedly offset to the left of the Screen. With this setup, when the television program is … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Audiology, Brain Physiology, Illusions
Tagged Audiology, Brain Physiology, Illusions
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Merely Conventional Signs
During a recent seminar on Vilém Flusser, organised by Ella Chmielewska and Fiona Hanley the discussion got round to the Borges story of Cartographers producing maps of larger and larger scales. I thought that Lewis Carroll had produced something similar … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Empty Signs, Logic, Randomness
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Haptic Interfaces: Extending Object Capabilities
Whilst looking for more up-to-date scanning devices I came across this nice haptic interface that extends the capabilities of everyday objects. It comes from the Fluid Interfaces Group of the MIT Media Lab and uses my favourite definition of a … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, Design, Haptic Objects, Haptic technology, Products
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Smartgeometry 2013
The tenth annual smartgeometry event has just finished in London, and was held at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Previous years’ events have been held at Troy, Copenhagen, Barcelona, New York and San Francisco with institutions bidding for the privilege of hosting … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Geometry, Graphics Technology
Tagged Architecture, Geometry, Graphics Technology
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