The Boundaries of Life and Death
“The Boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” – Edgar Allan Poe
A importância dos dados
Jer Thorp fala da importância cada vez maior dos dados nas nossas vidas. Vale a pena para quem gosta de visualizações de dados.
Morpho Towers
“Morpho Towers–Two Standing Spirals” is an installation that consists of two ferrofluid sculptures that moves synthetically to music. The two spiral towers stand on a large plate that hold ferrofluid. When the music starts, the magnetic field around the tower is strengthened. Spikes of ferrofluid are born from the bottom plate and move up, trembling and rotating around the edge of the iron spiral.
Homopolar motor
Like any other electric motor, the homopolar motor is driven by the Lorentz force: as they move through an external magnetic field, the current carriers in the conductor experience a push that is perpendicular to both their velocity and to the external magnetic field. This force induces a torque around the axis of rotation.[1] Because the axis of rotation is parallel to the external magnetic field, no commutation is required for the conductor to keep turning. This simplicity is achieved at the cost of not being able to have more than one coil turn, which makes the homopolar motor unsuited for most useful applications.
