Performative Architecture Studio 2011: The Book

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1.3.3 Emergence In studio I was directed to the contemporary discussion of movement in architecture, emergence. Emergence is the movement from low level rules to high levels of sophistication. The higher level complex patterns arise out of paralleled simple interactions between local agents. The systems are dynamic, self organizing and respond to the environment. These topics relate directly to the my understanding of what Performative Architecture is. class Agent {

//--------------------------------------------CLASS PRO PVector location; PVector velocity; Float agentSize ; int col ;

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// Red float float float

and r = g = b =

Purple tones selected 255; 255; 255;

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//--------------------------------------------CLASS CON

Agent(PVector LOCATION, float AGENTSIZE, int AGENTCOLOUR VELOCITY) { location = LOCATION; agentSize = AGENTSIZE; col = AGENTCOLOUR; velocity = VELOCITY; }

//--------------------------------------------CLASS MET void run() { flock(); updatePos(); render(); }

KIRILLY BARNETT

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