Monthly Archives: February 2010

Definitions: Parametric and Algorithmic Design

By Neil Leach | Published 2010-02-23 | Posted in Uncategorized

    Contemporary digital design practice is in a state of rapid evolution. While architects have employed computer-aided drafting (CAD) systems for decades, only recently have two distinct and potent design sensibilities - parametric and algorithmic design - emerged. Nurtured by early architectural researchers and programmers operating in practice, these methodologies are now gaining widespread professional and [...]

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Visit to Institute for Creative Industries

By Neil Leach | Published 2010-02-19 | Posted in Uncategorized

    Click here for Motion Capture demo A group of USC postgraduate students were shown around the Institute for Creative Industries, USC’s flagship research center for immersive interactive media. Arno Hartholt gave them a demonstration of the latest immersive simulated environment, the Gunslinger stageset for a wildwest saloon populated by a series of simulated [...]

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Code Word: Processing

By Neil Leach | Published 2010-02-15 | Posted in Uncategorized

  Casey Reas is giving a lecture at Kerckhoff Hall, 734 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles 90089, at 6 pm on Wednesday 17 February 2010. Admission free. This event is part of the Voices and Visions USC Arts and Humanities Initiative. Subsequently he will be giving a series of workshops on Processing in the Institute [...]

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Motion Capture

By Neil Leach | Published 2010-02-13 | Posted in Uncategorized

      Click here for video of motion capture movements Nature provides us with countless examples of organisms that survive by adapting to their surroundings – chameleons that change color according to their environment, plants that follow the sun, cells that develop antibodies to viruses etc. But what would happen if buildings were also [...]

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Dean Ma voted one of ‘World’s Most Influential Designers’

By Neil Leach | Published 2010-02-05 | Posted in News

Qingyun Ma, Dean of Architecture at USC, has been voted one of only 3 architects among the 27 ‘World’s Most Influential Designers’ by Business Week. The other architects included are Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid. Philippe Starck, whose design work includes architecture, is also listed. Dean Ma has been instrumental in supporting Parametric and Algorithmic [...]

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COMPLEX MORPHOLOGIES

By Roland Snooks | Published 2010-02-03 | Posted in seminar

Roland Snooks directed the algorithmic design seminar, Complex Morphologies, in Fall in conjunction with Roland Wahlroos-Ritter. The seminar explored methodologies that engage complex and non-linear systems to generate emergent formations. Recursive and self-organizing techniques were developed that are capable of generating complex forms of order. In addition to developing algorithmic techniques the seminar operated as [...]

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Synapses Speeches

By Neil Leach | Published 2010-02-02 | Posted in Conference

Francois Roche will host a spectacular event in Paris on 16 February 2010. Bringing together a remarkable range of some of the world’s most innovative thinkers and provocative designers, including Antonio Negri, Mark Burry, Francois Jouve, Rupert Soar,  Behrokh Khoshnevis, Jean-Didier Vincent, Jeanette Zwingenberger, Chris Hounes, Stephan Heinrich, Winston Hampel, Natanel Elfassy and Giovanni Corbellini, [...]

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Multiagent systems

By Neil Leach | Published 2010-02-02 | Posted in Lecture

Lecture by Professor Milind Tambe, USC Time: Wednesday, 3 February 2010, 6-8 pm Location: USC’s Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC) Room 201 Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML) How do we build multiagent systems? Today, within the agents and multiagent systems community, we see four main approaches: logic-based belief-desire-intention (BDI), decision- theory and its incarnation [...]

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