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What is Voronoi? Basic geometric explanation:

Voronoi is very intersting for us : guarantee of a dynamic space for every unit, minimal segment lenght:

Wanna play with java applets with cute french accent? Do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7v1wuN_9Wg

If you want to start programming with big C read-made librairies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DLfkWWw_Tg
http://www.cgal.org/
And also for graphic designers:
Librairy for processing 1 / flash / java…
Voronoi is more than just mesh deformation:

Aggregate solid particles : we dont want to build everything on the shore and bring it to the sea, we want the structure to “grow”, unfold, die, regenerate from its own environment and it’s “natural” vernacular ressources:

Voronoi alike shapes happen in the nature as an “optimization tool” :

In this simulation, many predatories and many preys.

And now, same in 3D space:

This one looks more like a predatory flock attacking a cube!

This one, an ant model is very good for dumbot exploration:

Swarms can generate more or less clear clusters (or density):

Clustering is amazing for P2P network, adhoc grid computing, mesh network:

We can optimize these clusters, networks:

Very good “passive” echange and reproductive organisms are plants with flowers:

Flowers are the plant’s reproductive structures. Angiosperms are types of plants that bear fruits and flowers. Flowers are usually both male and female, and are brightly colored to attract insects to help them carry pollen used for sexual reproduction. Not all flowers are colorful, though. These flowers usually use the wind for pollination. [source]

Everything should make love!

Now for trajectories, and DNA (lucky structures) it can improve over selection:

They are one of the world’s greatest and most precious natural resources, yet are entirely hidden. Now, for the first time, a high-resolution fresh water world map (4.4 mb pdf) shows where underground aquifers store vast amounts of water.

The map of “blue gold” is the result of nearly a decade of sometimes difficult talks between neighbouring governments, mediated by UNESCO. The hope is that it will help pave the way to an international law to govern how water is shared around the world.

source : New Scientist, 12:52 24 October 2008 by Catherine Brahic

Le 13 mai 1973 (était-ce un vendredi?), 5 hommes et 6 femmes qui ne se connaissaient ni d’Eve ni d’Adam, embarquaient pour une expérience humaine unique de 101 jours en mer sur le radeau “Acali” (du nom d’une province mexicaine). Une coque de noix dessinée par l’architecte britannique Colin Mudie, reconstructeur, entre autres, de l’Argo amarré à Gênes.

A lire ou à relire, “L’expédition Acali” par l’anthropologue mexicain Santiago Genovès, le premier radeau moderne à ralier l’Afrique au Mexique. Je n’ai trouvé aucun site internet y faisant référence, alors bonne lecture. Santiago Genovès a participé aux expéditions Ra 1 et Ra 2 de Thor Heyerdahl, navigateur, anthropologue et archéologue ayant traversé l’Atlantique sur des radeaux en papyrus.

Extrait: “Entre les chercheurs qui restèrent à terre et nous qui prîmes la mer se produisirent des heurts; il y eut de l’envie, de la jalousie, de la peur. Dans le radeau et loin du radeau. Dans la science et hors de la science. C’est de tout cela qu’il s’agit dans le projet Acali”.

20 ans après l’ “Acali”, l’expédition “Hsu-Fu” reliait la Chine aux côtes de l’Amérique en jonque traditionnelle de bambou. [source : http://www.leblognautique.com/livres/index.html]

2009 happy fish and microchips!

HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY !!! MERRY MERRY MERRY !!!

Work … or … party?

My desktop … concentrate.
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Dansey Place W1 London

Hyde Park, Serpentine

I never know where is honnesty, but I deeply respect commitment.

I am very impresed by the work of the Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal.

There is no single-way to solve a problem or cure a disease and repairing a catastrophy can only happen the catastrophy has happenned…

Now I have 2 comments :

- on the video the artist does not have a stain of paint on himself, after 6000 bullets, this is either, very lucky, or the physical computing interface was very very inacurate… What does it mean?

- We know it, technology has always offered more distance and more efficiency in violence and unfair war between the have and have-not… This work does a powerful demonstration of the idea, so… how to stop the violence? talking about it / re-enacting it or simply not talking and try to forget it, or offer an alternative, or take direct action? I am dangerous (song). Or are we voluntarily perpetuating the violence?

Is technology made for destroying humans or life in general? Will there ever be a human technology? Will there ever be a real life technology?

…

Wafaa Bilal’s childhood in Iraq was defined by the horrific rule of Saddam Hussein, two wars, a bloody uprising, and time spent interned in chaotic refugee camps in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Bilal eventually made it to the U.S. to become a professor and a successful artist, but when his brother was killed at a U.S. checkpoint in 2005, he decided to use his art to confront those in the comfort zone with the realities of life in a conflict zone. Thus the creation and staging of “Domestic Tension,” an unsettling interactive performance piece: for one month, Bilal lived alone in a prison cell-sized room in the line of fire of a remote-controlled paintball gun and a camera that connected him to internet viewers around the world. Visitors to the gallery and a virtual audience that grew by the thousands could shoot at him 24 hours a day. The project received overwhelming worldwide attention, garnering the praise of the Chicago Tribune, which called it “one of the sharpest works of political art to be seen in a long time,” and Newsweek’s assessment “breathtaking.” It spawned provocative online debates and ultimately, Bilal was awarded the Chicago Tribune’s Artist of the Year Award.
Structured in two parallel narratives, the story of Bilal’s life journey and of his “Domestic Tension” experience, this first-person account is supplemented with comments on the history and current political situation in Iraq and the context of “Domestic Tension” within the art world, including interviews with art scholars such as Dean of the School of Art at Columbia University, Carol Becker, who also contributes the introduction. Shoot an Iraqi is equally pertinent reading for those who seek insight into the current conflict in Iraq, and for those fascinated by interactive art technologies and the ever-expanding world of online gaming.
Wafaa Bilal, a professor of Photography and Imaging at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, has exhibited his art worldwide and lectured extensively. He has been interviewed on NPR, the BBC, CNN, MSNBC and the History Channel. Visit his website, www.wafaabilal.com.

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funeral van in beautiful freshwater flood, eversholt st, between euston and camden.

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