Particle Lab

Particles that glow from yellow to red, and explode out

Particles explode out every 4 seconds and linger for 5 seconds

Lecture Three

• A vector image is a smart line that knows where it came from and where it's going (e.g. CAD drawings).
• A raster image is a collection of dumb dots (e.g. tif, png or jpeg files).

• A diagram is a visual representation or explanation.    
• Digital rendering concerns itself with texture, lighting, geometry and layers and in high quality rendering what matters most is the quality of images used, lighting and texture. 
• Drawn rendering uses pressure and different media.
• Wikitecture openly invites people with a range of different backgrounds to work on projects - through both real life and the virtual world (including Second Life).
• Cameron Sinclair is a founder of the non-profit organisation, Architecture for Humanity, which works towards a sustainable future. On Archvirtual.com, he comments on a hurricane relief project that was first built in Second Life: “The idea is, can we work collaboratively online, in places like Second Life, to respond to issues like Hurricane Katrina...…we starting in 1999 basically using email and a web page – and as we’ve progressed and as technology has progress, we’ve embraced new technologies.”
• Toyo Ito is a leading contemporary architect who is interested in the idea behind architectural works.
• Mediatheque is a library of resources - materials, books, periodicals...