Carl Lostritto, Instructor
School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation
ALindberg
_growth cont.
the last post was just still pieces from formZ collaged over the buildings in photoshop. this time i took still images from points in the animation i have created. unfortunately i was having a little trouble with the animation and trying to make it work like i wanted. i think im going to have to change my intentions slightly based on the limitations of the program.
Electoral Mapping
I started by mapping the electoral votes alloted to each state and in what direction that state voted. A state like California with 55 electoral votes in an election that voted democratic would be 55 units above the horizon, while a state like Texas that has 34 votes and voted republican would be 34 units below. I then went back to the last 7 elections to see if there was any type of trend. What I found was that in recent history, other than the 8 years Clinton was in office, the country voted HIGHLY Republican. It has not been until recently that there was more disparity among the states. Finally, the color of each graph denotes who won that election, blue being democratic and red being republican.
This elections stats are based on estimates with no toss up states.
Stumped
If anyone takes a look at this sometime on Tuesday, let me know if you can help with it at all. Basically, I mapped out the electoral votes for each state and in which direction they are predicted to vote this year (blue) or how they voted in 2004 (red). In all there are about 17 states that differ. Right now the two nurbs look too similar and I am trying to figure out if I need to map them differently, or if I should add a new variable. Any input would be helpful, thanks.
Folding to Space
The passage from pattern to surface to space can be thought of in a very logical and step-oriented process or algorithm. In the reading Expressive Form by Kostas Terzidis, the author explains that simple pattern can be folded and unfolded upon itself to become a shape or space. In the example of the step-by-step oriented process of paper folding or origami the pattern folds upon a preset crease to create a 3-dimensional form or space. Also, nothing is added or subtracted to the continuous nature of the single pattern or piece of paper creating homogeneity in the structure.
However, this idea of folding based solely on one pattern can be identified with a sort of mimicry that Michael Ostwald says causes the space to lose its identity. In his article Seduction, Subversion, and Predation: Surface Characteristics he says the object will lose itself in the whole of its surroundings, or in this example the shape loses its individuality from its initial state because it followed only one set path.
But what happens if new sets of rules are introduced during the act of the fold or unfold? Terzidis argues that all the potential of a plane is in between the start and end points of the action. My journey into the translation of pattern to space will see what happens when a pattern is introduced to another or reintroduced to itself, before it has finished (un)folding. This will not only cause a new dynamic space than the one that was predetermined by the original pattern, but it will also help to cure the problem of the output losing its individuality to the pattern.
The actual process will build upon my initial experiments into depth from exercise 5. In that case I used a single, but multifaceted pattern, and broke it down to three distinct, but separate patterns. Now I can go back and reintroduce the patterns to each other in various ways to create a new space than the one originally predetermined.
