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The old opposition between a digital culture of sensuous, ephemeral images and a tectonic culture of pragmatic building has given way to a new collaboration between the two domains, a 'digital tectonics'. Computer linked fabrication techniques of many kinds have become an integral part of the design process, while new digital tools are allowing engineers and architects to understand in far more detail the behaviour of load carrying surfaces, and to generate new architectural forms.
Digital and computer-linked design techniques is one of the hottest topics in architecture and in an ever-expanding world of digital technology this book tackles the practical elements of the field.
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Where art, philosophy, and the new wave combine........2005-12-17
Neal Leach et al., ed., Digital Tectonics (Wiley, 2004)
Let me start by saying that I know absolutely nothing about architecture besides what I've read here and in Michael Benedikt's stuff, so most of the time I've no bloody idea what I was reading here. This one came to me as a library mixup (someone had gotten it confused with Loss Glazier's Digital Poetics), but it caught my attention, and so I read it anyway.
When did philosophy and architecture become so entangled? (I ask myself this after Benedikt's stuff, too.) I don't know, but the end result is that books like this, which are aimed at showcasing new technologies in architecture, also end up showcasing a good deal of philosphy. And I'm on still tenuous, but far more solid, ground with philosophy than I am with calculus, so I did understand at least part of what was going on.
According to Leach and his contributors, there has been a fundamental rift in the construction of buildings since time immemorial-- the architect's aesthetics and the engineer's physics. The point of the digital tectonics movement is to find ways, through computer technology, that these two things can be brought together into one profession. (Can you hear the engineers screaming for blood now? I can.) In order to give the reader an idea of the directions the digital tectonic movement is taking, they published this slim, but detailed and lavishly illustrated, collection of papers from some of the foremost names in the field.
Drawing on the mostly-conceptual work of Gaudi and Otto, and using Deleuze and Guattari mostly as dummies at which to aim critical looks, these folks are proclaiming the idea of a revolution in architecture that will change, if it succeeds, the very way society interacts. This is most evident in the paper "SoftOffice," detailing the construction of a hypothetical space (well, two; an office building and a childs' playroom, though one gets the feeling that the authors see the two as eventually interchangeable) completely at odds with what we know of space today, and yet intuitive. It's easy to see the strengths of such an installation as an office building. This is, in no small part, because the paper's author is also a gifted writer.
As with any anthology of work where the main profession of those contributing is not writing, this is not always the case. There are a few papers that seem to wander off aimlessly or end long before they should (and there's one baleful attempt at a poem that reads rather like a building would look if I tried to design it), but a good portion of what's here does its job quite nicely.
That said, I can tell you from experience that Digital Tectonics is not in any way a book for beginners; if you've got a background in architecture, you're likely to get more out of it than I did. Still, I found it quite enjoyable. ***
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This digital document is a journal article from Quaternary Science Reviews, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The Vienna Basin Transform fault is an active fault system extending over a distance of some 300km from the Eastern Alps through the Vienna Basin into the West Carpathians. Active sinistral movement is indicated by moderate seismic activity in a NE-striking zone paralleling the fault, focal plane solutions and recent stress measurements. By analogy to the Miocene kinematics we propose that the sinistral strike-slip fault terminates in the Carpathians where horizontal offset is transformed into thin-skinned thrust-type deformation. Hypocenter depths mostly well above 12km are in line with the inferred thin-skinned style of deformation with active faults restricted to the overthrust Alpine-Carpathian units. Mapping of active fault segments in the Vienna Basin using subcrop data, thickness maps of Quaternary deposits, seismological data, and geomorphological features seen in the digital elevation model shows that virtually all active faults are reactivated Miocene structures. In the southern part of the basin active faulting defines a small-scale pull-apart structure with an actively subsiding Quaternary basin, which is filled with up to 140m fluvial gravel, sand and paleosoils. For this basin Quaternary sinistral displacement was quantified by adopting a geometrical model for thin-skinned extensional strike-slip duplexes. Accordingly, 1.5-2km sinistral slip accumulated during deposition of the basin fill in the last 400 ky corresponding to a slip rate of 1.6-2.5mm/y. Results are in good agreement with published GPS data indicating 2mm slip per year. A second group of Quaternary basins is related to listric normal faulting, rollover and crestal collapse of the reactivated normal faults at the NW basin margin. Rollover also resulted in tilting and dissecting Late Pleistocene river terraces of the Danube.
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The “Gale Encyclopedia of Science” is written at a level somewhere between the introductory sources and the highly technical texts currently available. This six-volume set covers all major areas of science and engineering, as well as mathematics and the medical and health sciences, while providing a comprehensive overview of current scientific knowledge and technology. Alphabetically arranged entries provide a user-friendly format that makes the broad scope of information easy to access and decipher. Entries typically describe scientific concepts, provide overviews of scientific areas and, in some cases, define terms.
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This digital document is a journal article from Global and Planetary Change, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The recent tectonic history of the Dominion Range is a key component in the debate over the age and significance of the Sirius Group glacial sediments. Outcrops at Oliver Bluffs along the Beardmore Glacier contain fossil wood (Nothofagus), mollusks, fish and insects that have been biostratigraphically dated by close association with late Pliocene (
<3.8 Ma) marine diatoms, implying a significantly warmer climate at that time. The sediments are inferred to have been deposited adjacent to a tidewater glacier at the head of an ancestral Beardmore Fjord and subsequently uplifted to their present elevation of ~1800 m. Evidence for post depositional uplift at the Dominion Range includes the presence of glacial-marine sediments and normal faults which displace Sirius Group deposits up to 300 m. New surficial mapping of lateral moraines and fault scarps, combined with ^3He surface exposure dating, place limits on the age and uplift rates of these key Sirius Group sediments. A series of Beardmore lateral moraines with exposure ages that range from
<20 ka to >2 Ma are separated by only 130 m elevation, indicating little change in elevation during the interval and that Plio-Pleistocene tectonic activity in the Dominion Range has been minimal. Surface exposure ages indicate the Koski fault scarp formed prior to 2 Ma and that erosion rates of the semi-lithified Sirius tills exposed in the scarp are only ca. 2.5 m/Ma, consistent with pervasive cold, arid climatic conditions. Surface exposure ages of moraine boulders overlying Sirius till, and offset by the faults, are between 1.9 and 5.1 Ma, assuming no erosion and constant elevation. Models of cosmogenic ^3He accumulation in the moraine boulders, that place the Sirius Group near sea level 3.8 Ma, show that the biostratigraphic age and the cosmogenic nuclide concentrations can be reconciled only with long (>4 Myr) exposure prior to deposition of the Nothofagus bearing units. This scenario is incompatible with the observed stratigraphy and climatic conditions necessary to support Nothofagus, and indicates these key Sirius group sediments are much older than 3.8 Ma. The conspicuous faults and grabens in the Dominion Range are interpreted as sackungen features attributed to gravitational failure resulting from oversteepening of the range flanks by glacial erosion by the Beardmore and Mill outlet glaciers rather than the result of tectonic uplift.
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This digital document is a journal article from Earth Science Reviews, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Sand-rich submarine fans are radial or curved in plan view depending on the slope of the basin floor. They occur isolated or in coalescing systems. The fans' average lateral extent measures close to 25 km and their thickness usually less than 300 m. The thickness of outer fan sequences averages around 120 m and that of middle fan successions around 160 m. Rarely reported inner fan sequences have a maximum thickness of 80 m. The formation of sand-rich fans is closely related to tectonic activity. Their sediment is coarse-grained and compositionally immature as indicated by significant feldspar content due to close provenance and rapid transport by short rivers with a steep gradient controlled by tectonism. Tectonic activity also provides for narrow shelves making the fans relatively insensitive to sealevel changes. Formation of sand-rich fans typically occurs in restricted continental basins. The tectonic settings are highly variable. Sand-rich fans typically receive their sediment through submarine canyons which intercept sand from longshore drift and/or are fed more or less directly by regional rivers. The type of ancient fan system (radial, curved, isolated, coalescing) may be identified through paleocurrent map plots, facies map sketches, recognition of lateral thickness variations and sediment influx centers, as well as lateral bed correlations defining the minimum fan extent. Important in distinguishing different environments of ancient fans are detailed measured sections, their comparison and correlation. Channelized inner fan and middle fan deposits may be distinguished from the unchannelized outer fan successions through bed correlation tests which reflect their different stratigraphic architectures and bedding patterns. Bedding in outer fan deposits (lobes) is relatively simple, parallel, and regular. The lateral bed continuity is relatively high. Channel fills, especially those of middle fan distributary channels, display a complicated bedding pattern with vertical and lateral random distribution of channel fills, axial erosion, and bed convergence towards the channel margins. Channel fills exhibit only linear bed continuity. Thus, the probability in carrying out local to regional scale lateral bed correlations is almost exclusively limited to outer fan deposits. The measured sections will help further distinguish fan environments by revealing: (1) different facies associations in outer fan sequences (mainly B, C and D) and middle fan successions (mainly A, B, C, D, and channel margin facies); (2) greater average bed and layer thicknesses in middle fan as opposed to outer fan successions (''bed'' and ''layer'' as used herein); (3) more frequent amalgamation surfaces in channel fills than in unchannelized outer fan deposits; (4) more frequent tabular amalgamation surfaces in outer fan sections; (5) more frequent nontabular amalgamation surfaces in channel fills; and (6) more frequent dish structures in middle fan than outer fan successions. Rarely exposed fan valley fills may be identified by coarse conglomerates. Moreover, in proximity to fan valley fills, relatively mud-rich sediments may be observed that derive from the depositional system of the basin slope.
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This digital document is a journal article from Remote Sensing of Environment, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Tectonic faults are often associated with characteristic geomorphological features such as linear valleys, ridgelines and slope breaks that can be identified as lineaments in remotely sensed images or digital terrain models. Lineaments of tectonic origin are often characterised by periodicity and characteristic spatial pattern. Unlike traditional methods of autocorrelation, variogram, lineament density and Fourier analysis, wavelet analysis is capable of capturing and describing both periodicity and spatial pattern of lineaments. In this paper, a case study is shown for the application of wavelet analysis to morphotectonic lineament investigation. Results of wavelet analysis are compared to traditional methods. Although this study involves DEM-derived morphological lineaments, the presented wavelet analysis can be also used for lineaments derived from remotely sensed images. These results hold for this case study and provide a good assessment of the relative abilities of wavelet analysis, but it remains to be seen how effective it is for other data sources, areas and geological terrain.
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The “Gale Encyclopedia of Science” is written at a level somewhere between the introductory sources and the highly technical texts currently available. This six-volume set covers all major areas of science and engineering, as well as mathematics and the medical and health sciences, while providing a comprehensive overview of current scientific knowledge and technology. Alphabetically arranged entries provide a user-friendly format that makes the broad scope of information easy to access and decipher. Entries typically describe scientific concepts, provide overviews of scientific areas and, in some cases, define terms.
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This digital document is a journal article from Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The Cetmi accretionary melange is cropping out in the Biga Peninsula of northwest Turkey. It is characterised by an isolated position, relatively far from the accretion complexes of the nearest suture zones, which raises the question of its lateral correlations. A detailed biostratigraphic investigation of the limestone and radiolarite blocks and the matrix of the Cetmi melange allowed to propose a solution for this palaeogeographic problem. Scarce red nodular limestones in the Han Bulog facies represent the oldest lithology in the melange. Their Late Scythian-Ladinian age is based on Chiosella gondolleloides, the co-occurrence of Gladigondolella sp. and Nicoraella cf. kockeli, and Paragondolella fuelopi. Light grey limestone blocks are a characteristic feature of the Cetmi melange. They occur in two distinct facies. Facies A consists of packstone to grainstone, and is characterised by unsorted and poorly washed pelbiosparites. Facies B consists of wackestone to packstone, and is characterised by poorly washed biopelmicrites to biopelsparites. The foraminiferal assemblage of Facies A, containing Triasina hantkeni, is of Late Norian to Rhaetian age. The foraminiferal assemblage of Facies B never contains T. hantkeni, and is characteristic of a Late Triassic (Carnian? to Norian-Rhaetian) age. Radiolarian cherts are widely distributed in the Cetmi melange. They record fully pelagic sedimentation from the Upper Bajocian to the Aptian. The matrix of the Cetmi melange consists of brown to black shales, sometimes silty or siliceous, intercalated with dark grey greywackes. Palynomorphs of one sample of brownish silty shale yielded an Early to Middle Albian age, based on the co-occurrence of several dinoflagellate cysts. The age of the matrix, representing the youngest lithology within the melange, and of the unconformable overlaying section (latest Albian-Cenomanian) indicate that the melange-forming process stopped between the Early Albian and the latest Albian-Cenomanian. At a regional scale, the Cetmi melange has little in common with the melanges from the Izmir-Ankara and Intra-Pontide sutures of northwestern Turkey precluding a direct correlation. On the other hand, the Cetmi melange shares several characteristics with the melange-like units of the eastern Rhodope Zone (Bulgaria and Greece), like a major Cenomanian transgression, the reworking of Triassic limestones and Middle Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous radiolarians, and the absence of Jurassic-Cretaceous passive margin lithologies. The occurrence of Rhodopian units on the Biga Peninsula suggests that the studied units represent an isolated fragment of the Rhodope Zone in NW Turkey.
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This digital document is a journal article from Earth Science Reviews, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The Black Mountains turtlebacks expose mid-crustal rock along the western front of the Black Mountains. As such, they provide keys to understanding the Tertiary structural evolution of Death Valley, and because of the outstanding rock exposure, they also provide valuable natural laboratories for observing structural processes. There are three turtlebacks: the Badwater turtleback in the north, the Copper Canyon turtleback, and the Mormon Point turtleback in the south. Although important differences exist among them, each turtleback displays a doubly plunging antiformal core of metamorphic and igneous rock and a brittle fault contact to the northwest that is structurally overlain by Miocene-Pleistocene volcanic and/or sedimentary rock. The turtleback cores contain mylonitic rocks that record an early period of top-southeastward directed shear followed by top-northwestward directed shear. The earlier formed mylonites are cut by, and locally appear concurrent with, 55-61 Ma pegmatite. We interpret these fabrics as related to large-scale, basement-involved thrust faults at the turtlebacks, now preserved as areally-extensive, metamorphosed, basement over younger-cover contacts. The younger, and far more pervasive, mylonites record late Tertiary extensional unroofing of the turtleback footwalls from mid-crustal depths. Available geochronology suggests that they cooled through 300 ^oC at different times: 13 Ma at Badwater; 6 Ma at Copper Canyon; 8 Ma at Mormon Point. At Mormon Point and Copper Canyon turtlebacks these dates record cooling of the metamorphic assemblages from beneath the floor of an ~11 Ma Tertiary plutonic complex. Collectively these relationships suggest that the turtlebacks record initiation of ductile extension before ~14 Ma followed by injection of a large plutonic complex along the ductile shear zone. Ductile deformation continued during extensional uplift until the rocks cooled below temperatures for crystal plastic deformation by 6-8 Ma. Subsequent low-angle brittle fault slip led to final exposure of the igneous and metamorphic complex. The turtleback shear zones can constrain models for crustal extension from map-view as well as cross-sectional perspectives. In map view, the presence of basement-involved thrust faults in the turtlebacks suggest the Black Mountains were a basement high prior to late Tertiary extension. In cross-section, the turtleback geometries and histories are most compatible with models that call on multiple faults rather than a single detachment to drive post-11 Ma extension.
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96 authentic Victorian patterns adapted for stained glass workers. Exquisite leaf patterns, intricate scroll designs, florals, borders. Use whole or in part for windows, transforms, panels, lampshades, mirrors, frames, mobiles or other craft projects.
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there's much better available.......2001-08-15
This is an alright book for absolute beginners, but not up to the standard of the many other books available. I would recommend 390 Traditional Stained glass designs by Hywel Harris as a much better choice.
Large patterns for once!.......2000-11-22
This book has a relatively good coverage of Victorian era designs. The patterns are large, so photocopy and enlargment is easy and clear. Designs are also relatively simple (I would consider this book for the advanced beginner or intermediate). There are few very intricate patterns traditional of the richest stained glass panels, but you surely have a lot of very nice patterns for your home.
Author Provides Patterns for Today's Hobbiest.......2000-04-19
The first step to my using Mr. Sibbett's designs is to scan them. He provides clearly defined, good quality images that scan well at high resolution. The quality of images is not always apparent to the naked eye. The images are large enough to duplicate well without loosing detail. For my purposes the max of three images a page at most works well. Other books may have more patterns but they loose quality when made larger.
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Finally!.......2004-06-26
Finally, Victorian patterns that are ORIGINAL! There's just a hint of Art Deco in the curves, and some designs are reminiscent of natural elements; that makes the whole package really appealing.
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Charming stained glass designs — as easy to execute as they are attractive — include approximately 100 royalty-free images in oval, rectangular, square, and round formats. Created to embellish traditional windows, the motifs will work equally well as patterns for fabric painting, appliqué, and other craft projects.
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113 charming designs are patterned after Victorian-era suncatchers, ranging from a single splendid tulip to magnificent butterflies, and a dazzling damsel greeting the dawn. The boldly outlined patterns also portray bright masses of flowers, plump cherries ready to be picked, and sparkling portraits of birds.
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120 engaging designs, meticulously adapted from patterns created by influential Victorian artist and craftsman for fabrics, wall hangings, carpets, and other decorative projects, depict lovely florals and vines, exotic birds, lush garden flowers, perky daffodils and much more — all artfully displayed in circular, oval, and rectangular frames and easily adaptable as templates.
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Ruby Glass.......2007-05-23
I love this book. I have been able to identify many, many pieces of ruby glass that I have been interested in collecting. Finding it in the book has validated the age of the pieces and what original pieces go together (such as a stopper for an old cruet). There are several pages of beautiful color pictures and many black and white photos as well. It is enjoyable to just browse thru again and again. The investment for this book is worth the money spent.
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Derived from authentic 19th-century sources, these elegant patterns were all specially designed for doorways and transoms. Distinctive images include flowers, grapevines, scrolls, wreaths, and other motifs, each appearing in several shapes, including rectangular, oval, circular, and oblong. 175 black-and-white illustrations.
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Victorian stained glass design pattern that incorporate the use of English Muffle Glass.
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