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Natural Force and Form
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Find a form in nature that intrigues you, and investigate the processes or forces that shaped it.
It may also be, as in animal locomotion, that the form has evolved to generate the force.
In either case, construct a visualization, or visual explanation that clearly and evocatively demonstrates the connection between force and form.
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Nature, for this assignment, includes any aspect of the physical universe from galaxies to atoms, plants, rocks, fluids and the bodies or behavioral patterns of animals.
You should choose a topic that intrigues you on a visual level and also an intellectual level. Look for a visual connection between force and form, a way in which the relationship might be intuitively discernible, if not immediately understandable in its full complexity.
Your work on the project will clarify and particularize the relationship using available research, ideally using an evocative visual vocabulary to present the connection between force and form.
Water studies Leonardo DaVinci pen and ink 1507
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magnetic forcecrystalline structure
Volcano crater
Fallopian tube cross section
Gold deposit
Lichtenberg figure (pattern of electricity)
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from The Thinking Eye by Paul Klee 1920s
from The Thinking Eye by Paul Klee 1920s
from The Thinking Eye by Paul Klee 1920s
from The Thinking Eye by Paul Klee 1920s
from The Thinking Eye by Paul Klee 1920s
from The Thinking Eye by Paul Klee 1920s
!39Wall Drawing Sol Lewitt 1976
charcoal drawings Joel Shapiro 1980s
Brush and ink Charcoal (center)
Spatiall effects of contrast
Effects of paper texture on dry and liquid media
Cirrus clouds (“Mare’s tails”)
Ink diffusion on paper inverse image
Digital diffusion effect Corel Painter
Photograph of oil paint on glass
Photograph of oil paint on glass
Polished Marble
Vortex from from a wedge in a shock tube Infinite-fringe interferogram by Walter Bleakley from Van Dyke
Bridget Riley “Op Art” Painting 1960s
Laminar Vortex Rings Photographs by Didden 1979. 1977 from Van Dyke
Joseph Albers Drawing 1945
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Photographs of steel ribbon 1940
!51Breaking of a plane water wave Photographs by J. Taylor from Van Dyke
!52Untitled 1995 Elliott Puckette incised gesso on panel
Lava explosion
Victor Hugo Taches ink wash 1860s
Cloud and tree
Blasted Tree Victor Hugo Pen an ink wash 1860s
Foot of a Fly
!58Diffraction of a shock wave by a finite wedge Photograph by H Schardin 1966
Eero Saarinen, Architect Plan for TWA terminal,1962
Eero Saarinen, Architect TWA terminal,1962
Naum Gabo, Sculptor Linear Construction in Space,1954 perspex and nylon monofilament
Char Davies, VR Artist Ephemere
Char Davies, VR Artist Ephemere
Char Davies, VR Artist Ephemere
Insil Choi student work
Nudibranch fluid dynamics
Vivian Wu student work Maple aerodynamics Cave screen shot
!74Termite Mound Botswana
!75Termite Mound Verntilation VR Design Project #1, Jadrian Miles
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