Comments on: Richard Brown http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/richard-brown.html Sun, 06 Mar 2011 16:58:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: richard http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/richard-brown.html/comment-page-1#comment-286276 richard Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:14:34 +0000 http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/richard-brown.html#comment-286276 What an aggressive ill informed comment - peppered with spelling mistakes and scientifically inaccurate statements! The dendrites are not crystals they are copper depositions. To use the word competing doe not imply sentience or emotional terms such as caring. Programs that emulate survival of the fittest involve competition for resources do so without the agents having the emotions of caring. Yes the conservation of energy is pretty much accepted as a scientific principle, no debate there. Though it is not clear in this post there are in fact 3 glass plates (not simply one glass plate as shown above) each having its 4 electrodes wired in parallel to a separate voltage source. As a dendrite grows in a glass it effects the potential difference across the 4 electrodes in ALL the glass plates, each growing dendrite effecting the direction and rate of growth of the other two dendrites. Its a complex cybernetic system involving feedback and competition for resources. What an aggressive ill informed comment – peppered with spelling mistakes and scientifically inaccurate statements!

The dendrites are not crystals they are copper depositions.

To use the word competing doe not imply sentience or emotional terms such as caring. Programs that emulate survival of the fittest involve competition for resources do so without the agents having the emotions of caring.

Yes the conservation of energy is pretty much accepted as a scientific principle, no debate there.

Though it is not clear in this post there are in fact 3 glass plates (not simply one glass plate as shown above) each having its 4 electrodes wired in parallel to a separate voltage source. As a dendrite grows in a glass it effects the potential difference across the 4 electrodes in ALL the glass plates, each growing dendrite effecting the direction and rate of growth of the other two dendrites. Its a complex cybernetic system involving feedback and competition for resources.

]]> By: John http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/richard-brown.html/comment-page-1#comment-196283 John Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:25:40 +0000 http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/richard-brown.html#comment-196283 What a bunch of crap. This is the art of B.S. There is practically no natural phenomena that doesnt involve conservation ( a ballance of energy or matter). The crystals are not competing. They don't care if the win or loose the race. They are simply ballancing, like EVERYTHING does. The one that grows the longest is probably the one that is closest to the copper electorde, or the one that for some reason has better conductivity than the others. Typical pho-science from artists who are not disciplined in science, but know how to sling the B.S. What a bunch of crap.
This is the art of B.S.
There is practically no natural phenomena that doesnt involve conservation ( a ballance of energy or matter).
The crystals are not competing. They don’t care if the win or loose the race. They are simply ballancing, like EVERYTHING does.
The one that grows the longest is probably the one that is closest to the copper electorde, or the one that for some reason has better conductivity than the others.
Typical pho-science from artists who are not disciplined in science, but know how to sling the B.S.

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