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lattice diffusion
Also known as "lattice gasses," this type of algorithm simulates the behavior of gas and liquid molecules in space.
March 31st, 2012
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Drawn Animations

By Carl Lostritto in “Testing to Failure.” Sarah M. Hirschman, Editor. SA+P Press. 2011. Page 372, cover art

thick picture plane
Is it possible to be flat and deep at the same time? Here the conflicting meanings become conflicting perceptions of space, an understood flatness and an understood inhabitable depth.
July 27th, 2011
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collaborative computation
Four of us (myself, Ben Callam, Matthew Olson, and Luc Wilson), all designers acting as artists, made three drawings with thousands of shared points and vectors.
April 30th, 2011
Red4
threads, fur, fabric
The nature of a field of strands allows direct focus on some topics that had been latent in my work and mind for some time.
February 5th, 2011
packing by searching
January 26th, 2011
Computation Without Computers

by Carl Lostritto in “CAAD | Cities | Sustainability” 5th Int’l Conference of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design (ASCAAD) 2010

manual computation
These posts archive beginning and ending exercises, which bracket a project executed by the students in the Spring 2010 Computer Applications in Architecture course I taught at UMD.
June 9th, 2010
1 3a To Post Web
quick screen
This screen was conceived, generated and fabricated with James Han and Joseph Kunkel in 36 hours.
June 8th, 2010
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parametric ornament
This project furthers the connection between digital media and architecture through the introduction of historic source material translated to space by parametric and surface-based computational techniques.
January 19th, 2010
5 Jc 2d Perspective 2
type space
In the Fall 2009 semester of "Introduction to Digital Media" I designed this project using transformation as the primary device for introducing digital modeling.
January 18th, 2010
Carolina Type Analysis
Teaching Systems-Thinking with Algorithmic Process

by Carl Lostritto in “Digitizing Architecture: Formalization & Content” ASCAAD 2009 Proceedings of The Fourth Conference of Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design 2009.

Scripting Animation

by Carl Lostritto in “Between Man and Machine, Integration/ Intuition / Intelligence” CAADRIA 2009 Proceedings of The Fourteenth Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia. Edited by Chang et. al.

media/Media
April 22nd, 2009
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computing forms and fields (NASA building)
A mix of interacting fields and forms towards the convolution of image, space, and performance
April 18th, 2009
Across Street
learning to code with variable fields
Parametric software is, unfortunately, eclipsing what would otherwise be interesting discourse on the role for math and computation in a non-linear design process.
April 18th, 2009
Alencar 350
scripting surface
Surface as field and field as surface
April 18th, 2009
Skin1b
algorithms with dynamic parameters
When computation affords fields of operations as opposed to linear operations that produce a single outcome, animation becomes a natural medium.
April 17th, 2009
a thesis
A proposal for an non-linear architectural thesis
April 17th, 2009
Process Map New
Animate Education: Early Design Education Pedagogy

by Michael Ambrose, Luc Wilson, and Carl Lostritto in “Beyond Computer-Aided Design” CAADRIA 2008 Proceedings of The Thirteenth Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia.

Introductory Digital Design Seminar: Thinking and Making

by Mark Ramirez and Carl Lostritto in “2007-2008 formZ Joint Study JOURNAL 16 Partnerships in Learning”

Animate Topologies, Blending media and architecture

by Carl Lostritto and Michael A. Ambrose in “2007-2008 formZ Joint Study JOURNAL 16 Partnerships in Learning”

CubeExplorer: An Evaluation of Interaction Techniques in Architectural Education

by Hyunyoung Song, François Guimbretière, Michael A. Ambrose, Carl Lostritto in “INTERACT 2007: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil”

tracing motion
Sequential transformations of motion into perception of space.
May 5th, 2007
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film form
This is analysis manifest as architecture of Bernardo Bertolucci's Il Conformista, (The Conformist).
May 3rd, 2007
Conformistsource Poster