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Volumetric Modeling

Volumetric Modelling (VM) is a major research stream within the group of Digital Building Technologies. VM is an umbrella term for methods like signed distance fields (SDF), implicit…

Domain Transforms in Architecture – Encoding and Decoding of Cultural Artefacts

Architecture is always a symbiosis of art and technology, of rational control and the creative loss thereof. Ever since information technology found its way into architectural practices through…

Concrete Canoe

What may sound like a contradiction in itself is the title of a bi-annual competition, happening in Cologne in 2017. This 16th edition attracted over 1’000 participating students…

Pug

This is what it looks like when a series of circles draw a pug:   Filter size:Artwork by Huebucket, via @hardmaruSaveSaveSaveSave

Topology Optimized Concrete Floor

Concrete is known for its strength and ability to take any shape of formwork. This formwork, however, can be very costly in construction. 3D printed sandstone, on the…

The Face of a Genre

The WikiArt collection contains over 100 K digital images of paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures etc. The collection formerly went by the name WikiPaintings. The basis of this study is…

Analysis of Image Composition

The Gugelmann Collection consists of roughly 2300 items that are so far digitised. In a first round of this project, three different aspects of information contained in the…

ASCII art with p5js

I recently stumbled upon what looks like quite a fundamental remake of processingjs.org, now called p5js.org. Since I made fPix and several other small projects with the former,…

Connecting the Dots

Schweizer Kleinmeister, Gugelmann CollectionThis is a sort of by-product of our Cultural Hackathon project. Some of the 2300+ works from the Gugelmann Collection had two or more authors…

Schweizer Kleinmeister: An Unexpected Journey

[metaslider id=430]This project is our contribution to the 1st Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon, taking place on Friday, 27th and Saturday 28th of February 2015 at the Swiss National…

Genealogy, part III

Part III in this series (see part I and part II) starts from the same list of persons (mathematicians, physicists, artists, architects, composers, …) and crawls their respective…

Eiffel tower

Every one knows what it looks like, right? Many have a clear image of it in their head. But draw it? How was that? Inspired by the project…