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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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