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Category Archives: thoughts

recent developments in 3d-printing flexible objects

05.08.2014by Jessica Leave a comment

Our Kinematics project is one approach to making flexible objects with 3d-printing. By interconnecting hundreds of rigid panels with hinges, we can create objects that behave like fabrics at the […]

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3dprinting, thoughts

Up-Goer Five

01.22.2013by aaron Leave a comment

A while ago there was a pretty great XKCD which gave semi-technical descriptions of the Saturn V rocket using only the 1,000 (or “ten hundred”) most commonly written English words: […]

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Cell Cycle – technical details

03.12.2012by Jesse Louis-Rosenberg 1 Comment

For a while now, we’ve been wanting to switch our online apps from Java applets to HTML5. Applets are simply an outdated technology with a much clunkier, inelegant user experience. […]

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software, thoughts

Re: The Algorithm Thought Police

02.13.2012by Jesse Louis-Rosenberg 3 Comments

Earlier today Marius Watz posted some thoughts on “computational cliches” aka overused, well-known algorithms that make pretty things without much work. I largely agree with the sentiment and general attitude, […]

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Nervous System @ CMU Design

11.29.2011by Jessica Leave a comment

Special thanks to Terry Irwin, Golan Levin and Jeremy Ficca for organizing our trip earlier this month to visit Carnegie Mellon University.  We gave a lecture for the Design school, […]

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education, events, thoughts

Becoming Lichenized

11.25.2011by Jessica 4 Comments

Recently, my friend Shaunalynn Duffy asked me to give a talk at a Sprout event centered around Fungi. Specifically she was interested in the photographs of lichen I’ve taken over […]

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inspiration, science & nature, thoughts

Xylem experiments and improvements

01.06.2011by Jesse Louis-Rosenberg 5 Comments

We have been working on the system we used to create the Xylem line in preparation for making a new collection of 3D printed pieces, including jewelry, lighting and furniture. […]

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design, software, thoughts, work in progress

on computational design

09.27.2010by Jessica Leave a comment

a brief except from the introduction Jesse wrote for our Easton Pribble Visiting Artist lecture at Pratt MWP last week. “This talk is going to be partly an exhibit of […]

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Fish patterns | Reaction-diffusion in nature

08.28.2010by Jessica 4 Comments

Our Reaction show starts in San Francisco in a few days. Throughout the course of the next month, we will be doing a number of posts on the reaction-diffusion system […]

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inspiration, science & nature, thoughts

Advertising and the free economy

03.07.2008by Jesse Louis-Rosenberg 3 Comments

I was watching an interview with Chris Anderson on television where he was talking about the economics of free.  Essentially the economics of free is just an extension of the […]

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