aether architecture - Satellite
Algorithms
Satellite Algorithms
Fictional entity playing complexity science
Adam Somlai-Fischer, A+Url
2001 fall
Project website:
http://www.arch.kth.se/eurb/rebrain/background/satellites
A fictional entity called Satellite was created playing out complexity
science concepts. It can generate spaces from various algorithmic behaviors.
To enrich the belief of the existence of these satellites, a physical
model of it was created, and a film to illustrate its behavior outside
the computer. It is a fictional project based on scientific data.
Extract from the satellite design decisions:
-Satellite loops that force nonlinear behaviours are self-contained, (holistic),
emergent.
-Satellites are responsive to their environment, discovering new behaviours
over time - they are innovative.
-Information to communicate across the system causes attractor satellites
to form.
-The whole is different than the sum of the parts. trignometrical functions
are nonlinear.
-Satellite systems contain structures in space and time.
-Each satellite evolves separately, giving a diversity in rule or task
space.
-Properties of the satellites are affected by the emergent properties
of the whole generation
-Catastrophes will exist
-3 or more satellites may exhibit chaotic dynamics.
-Satellites do not exist in isolation, but are defined only in conjunction
with other systems, including that of the observer[designer]. Identify
the global optimum.
Images of the physical model - Screenshots of the virtual satellite
Interactive observation of this virtual entity