7th April

Lloyd

Using agents in a more integrated manner, to produce a liquid system.

relation to Yokahama.

surfacing - touch agents leaving traces - surface modulations and texturing.
working on sounds agents and light agents - in terms of operability

site: southbank buildings - like picturesque pavillions - views of worked into agent model

liquid language
virginia woolf

5th April

Ben

CA is a field; run on an open grid or scaffold through which any formation could potentially emerge: bodies moving over a field
a distributed field of clusters
CA: dynamic effects of the interactions between bodies

write a recipe - or rule system
maintain the act of bodies dynamically interacting across dimensions of the project
the landscape being part of the interactions between bodies rather than interactions occuring in a landscape.

Lloyd

site - the entire length - stretch scheme out betweent the two bridges.

the biting surface - carving the surface into depth

alhambra, granada

using: maya - plugin bugs water lines intersecting with sensory lines

relationship between lines and curves paramount

form follows phenomena

a series or sequential arrangement is inevitable

DRAW

22nd March

Lloyd

• arbitrary < [emergence] > cause and effect

emergence - where no clear cause and effect can be found; a complex dynamic system
differented systems at play:

program
- bubble diagram (way of understanding organisation)
- associations (water, information, fluidity....)

site
- site diagram (analysis - ways of understanding it)
- sounds?

thought
- movement - motion - animation - kinetics - (proposition - precedent)
- affective spatial-material matrix (mode of composition)

Ben

• the spiral as overall form - a portion of which is figured; problematic.
  - make the meshes work with the site at a local level.

suggestions:

• take the clustering process to a smaller scale - to generate building parts rather than large areas of overall form.
• differentiate: types of clusters/ different streams, intensity of meshes, stretching of meshes

(maybe look at: d'arcy thompson: on growth and form)

15 March

Lloyd
- categories of dynamics: movement>animation, motion>kinetics
- streams of precedent and their relations to the categories of dynamics
- project being to reconcile historically divergent attentions to motion/movement

• fairy paths; carry movement/qualitative information + track motion paths
  what happens next??? (including folding in programmatic issues)

Ben
- to plow into lots of tests re cellular automata process - how to characterise the rules within the process?

11 March

Lloyd - fairy movements across site: heading toward affective tone fairies - table of environmental affects and tonal range

• mapping the gradients - distinguish different lines. - reverse programming (>test) - qualitative description - contour - tone diagrams??
• push the intended/imagined process as far as possible to reverse programming stage (even if just a portion of the site) - revisit research statement.

Ben

• move back to cellular automata. site on flinders - spring. 2200 m sq
• more tests: the rules, starting points, the question of the loop. - how is the process embodied? - or qualitatively embedded + how does it make sense.
• qualitative description - revisit research statement (?)
• program as layer of information? - cellular automata being one LAYER of evolutionary activity - other layers, like program, evolve the scheme.

1st March

Ben

• impermanence, ephemerality, moving on.
  

pre-major: dance, camouflage, cellular automata, data mapping,

cellular automata: operate at a different scale, introduce materiality.

Dominique Perrault? mirrors in landscape

Dining Hall - open feeding facility/sitting, chilling out, meditating area. Eating.
indoor + outdoor space. toilet block

Lloyd

26th Feb 04

Ben

Move to want to shift project to sound. - discussion about the problems with representation and acoustics.

• explore modes/technique of working with acoustics - parameters, methods, representation.
• again at the look MetabolistS?
• look back at earlier pre-major work.

Lloyd

site - by birrarung marr? public exposure aspect possibility of distributed site, linked by water flow.

information - saturation, flow

Barcelona pavillion - fluid spatiality pattern.

water environments -

the 4 catergories: motion, movement, animation, kinetics

foreground the nonsymbollic, implicit, tactile appropriation aspects of arch over narrative, symbollic aspects - ?

this week:
time at site
practicing rendering - experiments with non-realist rendering techniques.
design tests re information