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Paper: 9ad5
| Paper title: | Developing an Algorithm for Topological Transformation [Desarrollo de un algoritmo para la transformación topológica] |
| Authors: | Magyar, Peter and Temkin, Aron |
| Summary: | This research intends to test the architectural application of Jean Piaget’s clinical observations, described in the book: The Child’s Conception of Space (Piaget, 1956), according to which topology is an ordering discipline, active in the human psyche. Earlier attempts, based on the principles of graph-theory, were able to cover only a narrow aspect of spatial relations, i.e. connectivity, and were mostly a-perceptional, visually mute. The “Spaceprint” method, explained and illustrated in co-author’s book: Thought Palaces (Magyar, 1999), through dimensional reduction, investigates volumetric, 3D characteristics and relationships with planar 2D configurations. These configurations, however, represent dual values: they are simultaneously the formal descriptors of both finite matter and (fragments of) infinite space. The so- called “Particular Spaceprint”, as a tool of design development in building, object, or urban scales, with the help of digital technology, could express - again simultaneously - qualities of an idea-gram and the visual, even tactile aspects of material reality. With topological surface-transformations, the “General Spaceprints”, these abstract yet visually active spatial formulas can be obtained. |
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| Year of publication: | 2000 |
| Series: | CUMINCADes:SIGRADI |
| Download paper: | /pdfs/9ad5.content.pdf |
| Citation: | Magyar, Peter and Temkin, Aron (2000). Developing an Algorithm for Topological Transformation [Desarrollo de un algoritmo para la transformación topológica]. SIGraDi’2000 - Construindo (n)o espacio digital (constructing the digital Space) [4th SIGRADI Conference Proceedings / ISBN 85-88027-02-X] Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) 25-28 september 2000, pp. 203-205, http://itc.scix.net/paper/9ad5 |
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