Martin Kemp
January 23rd, 2010 by barbara
We are all “shape junkies”, elemental interest in shapes. Sometimes similarities mean something, sometimes not. Artists, scientists and investigators of all kind keep asking why.
Self organized criticality: i.e. a sandpile, high probability of disaster. An artist friend who was sieving cement dust to create a pleasing micro landscape felt intuitively that it was pleasing; turns out he discovered a basic scientific principle.
