you may hear me repeat myself later today...but looking at all your work got me thinking about a couple of desirable attributes that should be designed into your field.
look for a multiplication of effects, one variation can set off a cascade of effects. For example, in rychiee's model (i know i already spoke to you about this...but i thought it might benefit everyone to hear this)...say that one of the arms of one of your units was shorter, and this trait expressed itself in a diagonal striation across your field. My hypothesis is that the system might start to spiral (this would most probably happen if you shorten the arms on just one side of your model) I'm not certain, it may simply pucker the system. What if the arms were shorter in a different configuration...what would that do?
In any case this would result in a second order of effects. now that you have observed this second order of effects...you can control the degree of pucker or spiral. in other words you will be able to produce macro behaviors from micro scales.
Now that you have a 2nd degree of behaviors... Say you take this to the limit where it will not pucker or spiral any more...what will happen then? Will it untwist itself...will it require that you design in some relief? How would you design that relief? Would you change up the position of the variation? I mean...i'm not sure...I haven't done it, but this should for everyone be a process of surprise and discovery. what are the limits of your system? A true system will never stop expressing itself. It's attributes will change over time, over space. Your systems should be responsive and dynamic. Your system should accomodate difference, but still be legible as a system.
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you may hear me repeat myself later today...but looking at all your work got me thinking about a couple of desirable attributes that should be designed into your field.
look for a multiplication of effects, one variation can set off a cascade of effects. For example, in rychiee's model (i know i already spoke to you about this...but i thought it might benefit everyone to hear this)...say that one of the arms of one of your units was shorter, and this trait expressed itself in a diagonal striation across your field. My hypothesis is that the system might start to spiral (this would most probably happen if you shorten the arms on just one side of your model) I'm not certain, it may simply pucker the system. What if the arms were shorter in a different configuration...what would that do?
In any case this would result in a second order of effects. now that you have observed this second order of effects...you can control the degree of pucker or spiral. in other words you will be able to produce macro behaviors from micro scales.
Now that you have a 2nd degree of behaviors...
Say you take this to the limit where it will not pucker or spiral any more...what will happen then? Will it untwist itself...will it require that you design in some relief? How would you design that relief? Would you change up the position of the variation? I mean...i'm not sure...I haven't done it, but this should for everyone be a process of surprise and discovery. what are the limits of your system? A true system will never stop expressing itself. It's attributes will change over time, over space. Your systems should be responsive and dynamic. Your system should accomodate difference, but still be legible as a system.
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