Monday, August 24, 2009

ACADIA 09

Francis Bitonti will be presenting his paper titled “Computational Tectonics” at this years Acadia conference. The paper outlines a methodology for encoding and decoding material assemblages as discrete computational systems.

Abridged Abstract:
This paper outlines a methodology for encoding and decoding material assemblages as discrete computational systems. Exploiting the combinatorial nature of tectonic systems makes it possible to produce a population of “material algorithms” capable of exhibiting a wide range of behaviors. Encoding assemblages as discrete systems affords the designer the ability to enumerate and search all possible permutations of a tectonic system. In this paper, we will discuss the calculations and computational processes used to encode material assemblages as populations of discrete algorithms.

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