Dissolving realities, the actual surface of the Sun, and robots building from Nature’s abundance: 3 kicks at the doors of perception
Some videos to bust open the doors of perception, as Aldous Huxley might have said - and maybe pursue some homologies, or shared patterns, at different scales of existence. We are interested in the fractal at A/UK…
Above is one of a series of videos made by Ruben (from Japan) called “Dissolving Realities”, where he wanders through street markets in Japan, “creating immersive experiences using Unity, 360 Photography and Photogrammetry”. He produces beautiful digital dream sequences, like something from inside Neo’s mind (from The Matrix).
Our second pattern-chase is from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, which in the last few days has posted this video, which represents “the highest resolution observations of the Sun’s surface ever taken”. They continue:
The movie shows the turbulent, “boiling” gas that covers the entire sun. The cell-like structures – each about the size of Texas – are the signature of violent motions that transport heat from the inside of the sun to its surface.
Hot solar material (plasma) rises in the bright centers of “cells,” cools off and then sinks below the surface in dark lanes in a process known as convection.
In these dark lanes we can also see the tiny, bright markers of magnetic fields. Never before seen to this clarity, these bright specks are thought to channel energy up into the outer layers of the solar atmosphere called the corona.
It’s also a honeycomb, the surface of a brain, the movement of selves and souls in a crowd…
And finally… what happens when you take digitally precise tools, and have them build from the most abundant organic materials on earth? And you closely follow natural patterns in your design? Writes Dezeen:
Neri Oxman's Mediated Matter Group has digitally designed and robotically fabricated a structure using the molecular components found in tree branches, insect exoskeletons and human bones.
Aguahoja I examines how even the materials that we consider waste can inform design.
Standing five meters tall, the structure's skin is composed of cellulose, chitosan, and pectin – the planet's most abundant materials, according to the studio.
"Derived from organic matter, printed by a robot, and shaped by water, this work points towards a future where the grown and the made unite”.