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inspiration / 03.28.2011

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…

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housewares / 03.27.2011

Hyphae – incomplete / complete

sketches for something new…. (click for a larger view)

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inspiration / 02.23.2011

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…

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science & nature / 02.19.2011

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…

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design / 01.06.2011

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…

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inspiration / 12.30.2010

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.…

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software / 10.28.2010

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…

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inspiration / 09.04.2010

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…

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inspiration / 08.28.2010

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…

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software / 08.16.2010

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…

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