Memorial Tree

The memorial tree was completed by australian architects M3architecture.

The tree marks the site where the first Australian Labor Party was established in 1891.

The tree is enclosed inside a wooden structure that supports 18ft timber pieces hanging from it. the finishes render the original tree shape that existed in the site. The installation uses a controlled grid that supports the timber pieces. Each timber has a unique cut at the tips that suggest the direction of the original surface that was used to cut the pieces in 3d environment. Installation time and costs and methods are not explained although much respect to the contractor that took upon this endeavor.

Boys and their Toys Exhibition at LOT

The installation follows the idea of taking sound and making it visible. They created a 3D sound surface and then applied it to a array of plexiglass.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/8064/boys-and-their-toys-exhibition-at-lot.html

Taipei Pop Music Center

The proposal offers the usage of natural landscape in order to create interior and exterior spaces. Terrain of the hill-like project has been sectioned horisontally in order to create a filtering method to bring light inside and define the interior space.

Interesting Aerial Images to Map

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Both images are rice fields and both have no sense of perspective, which makes them easier to map.

base26: Word mapping

http://toxi.co.uk/p5/base26/

base26 is a small java project that maps 4-letter words in 4 dimensions (time, x, y and z.)

More importantly, it maps data in an unexpected way that produces connections between otherwise unrelated words. Words that use the same letters, or letters alphabetically close to each other become clustered in space. A wireframe surface surrounds each cluster and points out the relationship.

While base26 strips the words of their regular meaning and indexes them based on the order of the alphabet alone, interesting relationships are found if the original meanings are considered. For instance the words ICON and IDOL are grouped very closely together. While the two words' meanings relate, the spellings are different due to each word's etymology.

These sorts of relationships are what make mapping words this way interesting.

On another note, this seems very related to our first project.