by Celia Wood | Feb 29, 2020 | Independent Study
D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson received the 1942 Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the United States National Academy of Sciences. His book On Growth and Form is generally recognized as influencing important biologists like Julian Huxley and Conrad Hal Waddington and...
by Celia Wood | Feb 24, 2020 | Independent Study
After following various tutorials, I have branched out into trying to create my own simulations. I started by trying to simulate stem growth. These simulations were created by having particles grow upwards from a circle. The path of the particles was determined by...
by Celia Wood | Feb 19, 2020 | Independent Study
This book is a collection of photographs that demonstrates the ways certain patterns repeat themselves throughout the natural world. In the introduction, Ball writes, “Perhaps the most curious thing about natural patterns is that they come from a relatively limited...
by Celia Wood | Feb 14, 2020 | Independent Study
As part of my research about how to animate various forms in nature, I am looking at different kinds of naturally occurring patterns like symmetries, branching, spirals, waves, tessellations, cracks, and stripes. It is difficult to try to animate a tree or a plant if...
by Celia Wood | Feb 10, 2020 | Independent Study
Mr. Taylor showed us the short film Garden Party in the opp block on “Weird Films.” I was intrigued by the detail of the animation, especially the lighting of the water and the highlights on the frog skin. I also loved how expressive the frogs are. They aren’t...
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