Week 2

Link to tutorial on spirals: http://www.designalyze.com/?p=3


Viktor Schauberger saw life’s many processes as a part of an indivisible whole—linked by spiral movement. He identified two forms of motion in Nature:

Inwardly spiraling (used to build up, to create, and to energize).

Outwardly expanding (used by Nature to encourage breakdown and decomposition) and

The phenomenon that is shown in the image of Guadalupe Island in this top image (acquired on August 20, 1999) features a ubiquitous occurrence in the motion of fluids—a vortex street, which is a linear chain of spiral eddies called von Karman vortices. Von Karman vortices are named after Theodore von Karmen, who first described the phenomenon in the atmosphere. Dr. von Karman was a co-founder of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboarator.

von Karman vortices form nearly everywhere that fluid flow is disturbed by an object. In the cloud images shown on this page, the "object" that is disturbing the fluid flow is an island or group of islands. As a prevailing wind encounters the island, the disturbance in the flow propagates downstream of the island in the form of a double row of vortices which alternate their direction of rotation. The animation below (courtesy of Cesareo de la Rosa Siqueira at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) shows how a von Karman vortex street develops behind a cylinder moving through a fluid.

Obtained from:

http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/oceancolor/additional/science-focus/ocean-color/vonKarman_vortices.shtml

Additional Research For Week 1

http://www.enotes.com/topic/Reptile_scale
http://www.dancingwithwater.com/the-new-science-of-water/vortices-natures-creative-tool/

Week 1 Tasks

When I take a look at a snake I see movement, continuity and constriction. I have brought in these above images to introduce my next element; movement. The spirals made in a vortex, represents a snake moving all over its prey while slowing constricting it.

The above images further explains the level of continuity present. The snakes skeleton being predominantly formed by an array of ribs forces the eye to work its way up from the snakes rattle or tail to its skull.

For this task I will be looking into snakes . The scales represent the intricate detail that has been forged onto its owner. The images above displays constriction littered with a sense of continuity. The scales reflect different angles of light to a viewer just like tiny compacted windows on a structure showing off all its reflective glory. What intrigues me most is the complex geometry these scales posses.