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High-rise Study

This study was developing ideas for a generative digrammatical spatial machine that would be under semi control. The machine was based on kinetics simulation. A series of cursors where "dropped" onto a surface from where thet bounced within a boxed space. The cursors where linked to the control vertices of nurbs surfaces.

This study was done by Birger Sevaldson in the context of OCEAN

 

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The controlling parameters where:

the artificial gravity, the properties of the cursors: elasticity and friction, the shape of the surface and its bouncing parameter.

This system was developed with additional cursor sets and csurfaces. An additional parameter was added: the weight of the control vertices.

 

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To the left smooth surfaces, to the righr partly edgy surfaces resulting from adding weight to the cursors.
 

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Here the same setup with three surfaces.
 

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This technique was used in the generation of the diagrammatic surfaces for
the World Center for Human Concerns

 

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