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Morph with the wind: shape-changing buildings

Futurum

While mitigating wind-induced vibrations is the project’s primary function, the team also intends for the designs to be able to react to other environmental conditions by controlling shading or changing colour to save energy. Along the way we have made major contributions to the state-of-the-art of building design under wind events.”.

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The Making of A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

For almost a decade starting in 1982, my primary computer had been a progressively more sophisticated Sun workstation. What about systems that adapt or learn? What about the foundations of mathematics? What about systems based on constraints? What about biological evolution? What about fundamental physics?

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