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Whales’ and dolphins’ speed and agility are wondrous to behold — finely tuned by evolution for efficiency and maneuverability in the water. Now researchers are working to translate these animals’ natural innovations into manmade technologies on land, air and sea.Frank Fish of West Chester University in Pennsylvania began to study the humpback whale fin while on vacation in Boston in the early 1980s, where he saw a statue of a humpback whale in a shop in Quincy Market. He assumed it was sculpted incorrectly, because the figure showed bumps along the front edge of the flipper. read more
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Pulse is a live visualization project by Berlin-based artist Markus Kison. It’s based around a shapeshifting, heart-like object that reacts to the emotions expressed by the authors of private weblogs on blogger.com. A program aggregates words in blogs’ text and scans for synonyms that correlate with the emotional concepts in Robert Plutchik’s three-dimensional circumplex model describing the psychoevolutionary theory of emotion. The more one a the emotions is represented, the more corresponding portion of the organism is mechanically activated. Blurring the lines between art and technology, Pulse uses data to create the very organic visualization. read more
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Circulation / skin panel systems study - Greenpoint Media Archive
Quartz lattice schematics - MT version. read more
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Waterfront / rooftop perspective view - Greenpoint Media Archive
Gallium metal lattice schematics - MT version. read more
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Perspective / site rooftop view - Greenpoint Media Archive
Diamond lattice schematics - MT version. read more
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Longitudinal section - structural system study - Greenpoint Media Archive
Gallium metal lattice schematics - MT version. read more
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Oblique section study - Greenpoint Media Archive
Quartz lattice schematics - MT version. read more
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Longitudinal section - slab/ partitioning study - Greenpoint Media Archive
Diamond lattice schematics - MT version.
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The carbon supermaterial graphene is already known for its exotic electronic properties. Now two studies suggest that the material is also one of the strongest, most elastic and stiffest materials known to science. read more
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Dvein: Evolving Imagination By Heather Ann Snodgrass
Dvein is a motion and interactive studio based in Barcelona. As a multidisciplinary studio, the team provides art direction, design and animation services for cinema, broadcast media and the music industry. Behance sat down with the team to get the skinny on collaboration, making mistakes and getting the job done, at any cost.
Each project the team participates in has its own timeline, which they adapt to suit the client accordingly. “We have a schedule, a deadline and when we don’t have a deadline we try to reach a “satisfaction point…Frustration always comes when you feel you are not able to do something as well as you would like because the client isn’t communicating what they want, but you see it clearly. Our goal is also to push clients to assume some risks in their projects, try to evolve their point of view.” read more
