Researcher Profile: Nigel Goldenfeld
Nigel Goldenfeld is a professor of Physics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign who has worked on a wide-variety of fascinating topics. We have encountered his research time and time […]
Category Archives: work in progress
Hyphae – incomplete / complete
sketches for something new…. (click for a larger view)
Researcher Profile: Oyvind Hammer
When we start working on a new project, we do a lot of preliminary research. This usually involves a wide literature search on the topic of interest, be it leaf […]
dendritic solidification
Here’s a new project we are working on. It is based on a simulation of solidification in supercooled liquids. As the liquid turns to solid, it forms a dendritic structure. […]
Xylem experiments and improvements
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. […]
ammonite suture patterns
For the holidays, Jesse gave me a 110 million year old fossil Ammonite. It’s a Cleoniceras Ammonite to be specific, found in Madagascar. Ammonites are extinct cephalopods that lived in […]
r-d on arbitrary meshes
As part of a new experimental project we are working on we had to create a reaction-diffusion system that can run on a constantly changing surface. Here are two examples […]
california academy of sciences
We are in San Francisco, CA for the opening of our reaction show. Today we explored the Conservatory of Flowers and California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park. Here […]
Fish patterns | Reaction-diffusion in nature
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 […]
cell cycle for ipad
Jesse is working on some iPad apps for our show so visitors can play with the methods we use to design products. The first one he is making is a […]