Pedestrian Fabric: April 2008

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Prototype 1

Here's a snippet of some of the video I have collected for my project, and the corresponding output of "pedestrian paths"...

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

This is a similar idea where resolution of a dingle place is investigated. Each line represents a different view of resolution. As you move across the quilt from left to right you increase the resoluion from low to high.
Each square is expanded out into the next line to the right.

For example....the quilt might represent a personal home on the coast of virginia.
So beginning from left to right the view starts out with the whole eastern coastline......then transitions all the way down to the border between the beach and the ocean at the persons' home in virginia.

The quilt works the same as Google Maps.....zooming in from a large scale (low res) to the neighborhood scale (high res) in similar increments. Each click in is a new line.

Precedents & Inspirations

1.Ghada Amer: "Love Has No End"
Brooklyn Museum of Art

2.Aids Quilt:
www.aidsquilt.com

3.Knitting Circles:
www.thepointnyc.com

4.The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project: Christine and Margaret Wertheim
REEF

5.Daina Taimina - Mathematician Cornell University
Hyperbolic Math

6.Benoit Mandelbrot - Mathematician - Fractal Geometry
SEED Magazine Interview

"Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line." – B.Mandelbrot, introduction to The Fractal Geometry of Nature

7. Robert Lang - Computational Origami
langorigami.com