periferiadomestica:

R.I.P. Matthias Rick (Raumlabor)

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(Source: funeral-wreaths, via rhaegartargaryen)

classicmusic:

Hardy, har, har.

Appropriate for today, an old classic in high-school band rooms around the world.

a-l-ancien-regime:

Project for the theatre to be built in the armoury of the Grande Ecurie at Versailles in 1745

Creator: Slodtz Sébastien-Antoine (1695-1754), Slodtz Paul Ambroise (1702-1758),. 

fiore-rosso:

micromegas / daniel libeskind.

(via infiniteinterior)

mapsinchoate:

Abraham Bosse (1602-1676)

Traité des pratiques géométrales et perspectives enseignées dans l’Academie royale de la peinture et sculpture

1665

tonguedepressors

thesherd:

Ancient certification? The red layer of paint present on the surfaces of some blocks linked to Roman architecture may represent approval of the painted surface by architects or contractors.  (via Red-Painted Stones in Roman Architecture | American Journal of Archaeology)

soulview:

James Hutton:

Its ability to explain the Earth’s geologic processes without reference to the Bible and its emphasis on an immensely long, cyclical process of erosion, deposition, sedimentation, and volcanic upthrust were revolutionary.

(via scientificillustration)

Underwater Archaeology with AutoCAD

The Wreck of HMS Pandora, 1984 Expedition, Queensland Museum

John Walker

http://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/images/applications/pandora/

1975

The Utah teapot (image shown is a modern rendering) is a 3D model which has become a standard reference object in the computer graphics community. It is a simple, round, partially concave mathematical model of an ordinary teapot.

The teapot data was created in 1975 by early computer graphics researcher Martin Newell, a member of the pioneering graphics program at the University of Utah. Newell needed a moderately simple mathematical model of a familiar object for his work, and his wife’s teapot (a Melitta) provided a convenient solution. The shape contains a number of elements that make it ideal for the graphics experiments of the time - it’s round, contains saddle-points, has a concave element (the hole in the handle), and looks reasonable when displayed without a complex surface texture.

The original teapot is on display at the Computer Museum, Boston

A Critical History of Computer Graphics and Animation

http://design.osu.edu/carlson/history/lesson20.html

1963

The Sketchpad system uses drawing as a novel communication medium for a computer. The system contains input, output, and computation programs which enable it to interpret information drawn directly on a computer display. It has been used to draw electrical, mechanical, scientific, mathematical, and animated drawings; it is a general purpose system. Sketchpad has shown the most usefulness as an aid to the understanding of processes, such as the notion of linkages, which can be described with pictures. Sketchpad also makes it easy to draw highly repetitive or highly accurate drawings and to change drawings previously drawn with it. The many drawings in this thesis were all made with Sketchpad.

A Sketchpad user sketches directly on a computer display with a “light pen.”  The light pen is used both to position parts of the drawing on the display and to point to them to change them. A set of push buttons controls the changes to be made such as “erase,” or “move.” Except for legends, no written language is used.

Sketchpad, A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System, Ivan Edward Sutherland

1936

Jean-Philippe Lauer (May 7, 1902 – May 15, 2001), was a French architect and Egyptologist.

He was born in Paris, France and originally studied architecture, but in 1926 he went to Egypt. Here he met and married (on October 1, 1929) Marguerite Jouguet.

He worked for Firth and Quibell on Djoser’s Step Pyramid. He devoted the next 75 years to restoring and reconstructing the complex surrounding the pyramid.

Fouilles a Saqqarah. La pyramide a degres. L’architecture. (La pyramide de a Legres complements.) Vol.3 pl.22, Lauer, J. P.

1924

W Godfrey Allen, Isometric drawing of pier and superstructure, 1924, St Paul’s Cathedral archives, A I5A

Compass and rule : architecture as mathematical practice in England, 1500-1750 Gerbino A, Johnston S, 2009

kagami:

From: Gioseffo Petrucci - Prodomo apologetico alli studi Chircheriani… (1677).

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flasd:

Illustration from Traité de perspective à l’usage des artistes où l’on démontre géométriquement toutes les pratiques de cette science, & où l’on enseigne, selon la méthode de M. le Clerc, à mettre toutes sortes d’objets en perspective, leur reverbération dans l’eau, & leurs ombres, tant au soleil qu’au flambeau (1750) by Edme-Sébastien Jeurat (1725-1803).

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