In the modern world, we have created a vast body of technology to serve our needs. We have augmented our individual capabilities through a system of physical and digital infrastructure, which has transformed the way we function both individually and collectively. …

The story begins with King Milinda visiting the Sankheyya hermitage. Milinda was an Indo-Greek king from northern India, and after traveling to the hermitage, he was greeted by Nagasena. Nagasena explains to the king that he himself does not exist, and upon the king’s confusion, seeks to explain by way…

So now we have concave surfaces, we need something better than the pyramid shape to start from. I took a traces outline of an aerofoil that I wanted to extrude into 3D: To turn this into a solid I needed to extrude the points along the z direction. This was…

I added support for convex shapes by explicitly passing a faces vector. I’d been using a trick in Mujoco 2.0 that allowed me to define the glider mesh as a collection of points without explicitly defining how the points are connected as faces. In this case, a convex hull is wrapped around the whole point cloud, meaning that aerofoils wouldn’t be possible…

Seemingly all of the physical world behaves rhythmically. The way that waves move through water, or sound through air show how energy propagates through matter by means of oscillations. It is built into the structure of our universe. …

Here I will explore natural examples of symbiotic relationships, and analogies of selective- and cross-breeding to the design process. In the reproductive cycle of many plants, genetic material is carried between individuals by honey bees, and the physical mixing of pollen on the back of the bee is part of…

In the first part of this series, I spoke about how our technologies allow an extension of the individual beyond the body, and the evolution of a hybrid organism of human society and infrastructure. In this part I would like to explore our technological partner in this relationship, and offer…

Can exotic physics be reconciled with spiritual teachings about the nature of reality? The Tree of Wisdom is a sculpture asking how we can combine our intellectual knowledge, our cultural wisdom and our spiritual gnosis. The sculpture is comprised of 3 elements: The equations - Are written in invisible UV ink and show…

The Earth has undergone such dramatic shifts that we seem to be approaching a “tipping point”, i.e. we are catapulting ourselves to a place where if we remove our hands from the controls, it will no longer fly. …