PinnedLuan van PletsenAlgorithmic Glider DesignSo I recently started paragliding, and I couldn’t help but try and find a way to tackle gliding using my Python skills…Sep 18, 20231Sep 18, 20231
PinnedLuan van PletseninWonk BridgePokemon and The Technological Organism — Part 1The ubiquity of technology in modern life is something we speak about frequently and are all aware of to varying degrees. We have…Sep 17, 2019Sep 17, 2019
PinnedLuan van PletsenNagasena and the CAPTCHAThe story begins with King Milinda visiting the Sankheyya hermitage. Milinda was an Indo-Greek king from northern India, and after…Feb 20, 2021Feb 20, 2021
Luan van PletsenAlgorithmic Glider Design— Stitching SurfacesSo now we have concave surfaces, we need something better than the pyramid shape to begin from.Oct 2, 2023Oct 2, 2023
Luan van PletsenAlgorithmic Glider Design — 1.1 ChangelogI added support for convex shapes by explicitly passing a faces vector.Sep 23, 2023Sep 23, 2023
Luan van PletseninCARRE4The Architectural Frequency of TemplesSeemingly all of the physical world behaves rhythmically. The way that waves move through water, or sound through air show how energy…Sep 4, 2020Sep 4, 2020
Luan van PletseninWonk BridgePokemon and the Technological Organism — Part 3In the 2nd part of this series, I described a key belief of mine that the ecosystem of our technological innovation is inherently alive…Apr 23, 2020Apr 23, 2020
Luan van PletseninWonk BridgePokemon and The Technological Organism — Part 2In the first part of this series, I spoke about how our technologies allow an extension of the individual beyond the body, and the…Jan 17, 2020Jan 17, 2020
Luan van PletsenSculpture: Tree of WisdomCan exotic physics be reconciled with spiritual teachings about the nature of reality?Jan 7, 2020Jan 7, 2020
Luan van PletsenSpaceship EarthThe Earth has undergone such dramatic shifts that we seem to be approaching a “tipping point”, i.e. we are catapulting ourselves to a…Oct 10, 2019Oct 10, 2019