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- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Date: Thursday, 5 Nov 1992 17:31:14 CST
- From: Laura Boutwell <U58100@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Message-ID: <92310.173114U58100@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Newsgroups: alt.architecture
- Subject: Fractal Addendum
- Lines: 32
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- Forgive me if the subject title has mislead you into such a banal text...
-
- but
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- does anyone out there know how to write a program to add onto CAD so that
- i may generate fractals (particularly a Lorenz Attractor?) I'm using Auto
- cad Rel. 11.
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-
- Incidentally, is Kent Bloomer related to Jennifer Bloomer, about whom
- i recently posted a somewhat inchorent note? I was very interested to hear
- about your experience at Yale and in fact am in total agreement with you-
- "ornament," whatever that is, is in defininte need of reappraisal, and in
- fact I cannot throughly address the problem on the Net at the moment, since
- I have a jury TOMORROW in which i have to present a theorectical investigation
- into ornament. I am using a system based on LeCorbusier's Modolor
- translated into a proportional system of Hair.
-
- My only caveat about your ornament post is that i believe the expressive
- possiblities need not look to historical themes that could easily generate
- into kitsch.
-
- I believe in was Jeff Kipnes who said "architectural graduate students are
- eloquent to the point of nausea." Sorry I am not living up to accusation
- at the moment - i'd love to have that fractal program though! (Now, Mr. Com-
- puter architect, would that be an ornament to the Autocad program?)
-
- ciao
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- Laura Bootsy Boutwell at my back i always hear
- Time's winged chariot drawing near
- -Alexander Pope
-