Organic Forms

10 responses to “Organic Forms”

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   born1945

   Jun 8, 2009 at 10:19 pm

   Incredible mixture of colors. These salt water marshes are some of the most important ecosystems in the world. These marshes are part of the San Francisco Bay Estuary system.

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   biotron

   Jun 9, 2009 at 12:17 am

   "let it flow, let yourself go" etc "slow and low…that is the tempo"? lovely image 🙂

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   jurvetson

   Jun 9, 2009 at 12:51 am

   exactly! Zep’s need massive subwoofers

   born’45: yes… and zooming in further… powers of 10…

   

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   disownedlight

   Jun 9, 2009 at 3:16 am

   View Large…

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   Erik Charlton

   Jun 9, 2009 at 5:01 am

   Amazing shot!

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   jitze

   Jun 9, 2009 at 7:14 am

   You caught a detail of a particularly crusty (crufty) piece of the bay – viewed in a wider context it can be just as startling in its colours, but in a different way:

   [http://www.flickr.com/photos/jitze1942/1750431347/in/set-72157602703990892/]
   [http://www.flickr.com/photos/jitze1942/1766425660/in/set-72157602703990892/]

   (That’s snow on Mt Hamilton in the background of the 2nd one)

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   jurvetson

   Jun 9, 2009 at 4:13 pm

   Welcome back Epp, and congrats!!!! You always turn it up a notch…

   Bay: SF Bay Area, by Zeppelin. So only about 1000 ft. up. I normally look for elements of scale… but this was just too pretty.

   Organic forms: a reminder that we perceive beauty in the emergent patterns derived from simple iterative algorithms (shells, organic growth, life, culture, evolution)…. resonant homologies if you will…

   It seems that we like the emergent constructs – fractal and nested – that arise from iterative computations, such as evolution or organic growth…

   Or from a Wolfram framework, our minds appreciate accumulated computational complexity.

   Organic History: reminds me of the Santa Fe Institute research on Balinese water temples and the emergent balance that minimized parasites… (In the talk I heard, the simple local rules on water allocation led to an emergent pattern in the larger system whereby crop rotation over space and time was nearly optimal to interrupt the reproduction cycle of parasites… and none of this was known to the local water temple decision makers)

   Organic Futures: yes, a leitmotif along the frontiers of the unknown…. from Microbes at work (inherently "green" and balanced in certain contexts), to biomimicry, to evolved systems, and eventually more recursive co-evolutionary dynamics. Augment early and often… =)

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   *Arielle*

   Jun 9, 2009 at 5:54 pm

   Incredible! What amazing designs

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   msamaclean ©

   Jun 10, 2009 at 12:12 am

   You have reminded me of some arial shots I have yet to post. This is a great view of this area! I love the close up of the mat layer!

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    TomiTapio

    Jun 11, 2009 at 1:45 pm

    It is cool, visually speaking. +fav

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