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Welcome to Panda3D! Panda3D is a 3D engine: a library of subroutines for 3D rendering and game development. If you'd like to know more about what it can do, examine the screenshots and feature list. Panda3D is free for any purpose, even commercial development. Go ahead and download it here. To learn Panda3D, you can read the tutorial sections of the manual, or you can just dive into the code of the sample programs. If you get stuck, ask for help on the forums. They're very active, and people are always willing to help.

Hadid, for instance, has envisioned six apartment structures characterized by alternating bands of glazing and solid striations that occasionally extend outward to form balconies. Meanwhile, Studio Daniel Libeskind has designed a contemporary arts museum featuring a squat, torqued volume with a green roof; the building will serve as the threshold between the redeveloped site’s northern edge and Fieramilanocity’s extant pavilions.

ORAMBRA: a carbon neutral office carbonfund.org EXHIBIT: MAKE IT WORK - Engineering Possibilities (2009) The Center For Architecture, AIANY PANEL: Multidisciplinary Innovation (4 Feb 2009) The Center For Architecture, AIANY MEDIA: Discovery Science TV (2008) Weird Connections: Episode 10 Balkon Contemporary Art (2008) Magazine Article: "Mechanikus ter, biologiai ido" MEDIA: BBC World Service (2007) BBC MEDIA: ABC Radio National (2007) ABC Newsweek Polska (2007) NEWSWEEK.COM MEDIA: Wired (2006) WIRED MEDIA: The Economist (2006) ECONOMIST MEDIA: CNN Future Summit (2006) CNN MEDIA: Technik / Zeit Wissen (2006) Zeit Wissen MEDIA: Except from ACADIA (2006) Link MEDIA: ArchitectureWeek (2006) Link MEDIA: Radio Adelaide 101.5 (2005) Radio Adelaide PROJECT: Filamentosa Ultra-lightweight Skyscaper (2004) Project PROJECT: Lotus Environmental Sensor Network (2004) Project PROJECT: frais Chicago (2003) Project PROJECT: ideaCloud Grange Beach (1998) Project PROTOTYPE: Films 1 & 2 (actuated class 3) Prototype PROTOTYPE: Films 3 & 4 (actuated class 3) Prototype PROTOTYPE: Films 5 & 6 (actuated class 2) Prototype PROTOTYPE: Films 7 & 8 (actuated class 2) Prototype PAPER: Using Actutated Tensegrity (2003) Paper PAPER: Structural Shape Control (2006) Paper PAPER: CAAD for Responsive Architecture (2007) Paper PAPER: Hybridized Control (2003) Paper PAPER: User Centered Interactions (2006) Paper PAPER: Cybernetic Form (2000) Paper

"This creature's skeleton is a textbook lesson in mechanical engineering, offering valuable knowledge that could lead to new concepts in materials science and engineering design."

Venus's Flower Basket

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Today's archidose #273 Here's a few shots of the recently-opened California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California by Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Photographs are by jiattison.

UHPC (Ultra High Performance Concrete) is a concrete with an extreme dense micro-structure generated by powder-like silica sand. The material density is responsible for a compression strength that is almost comparable to steel and a surface quality that reflecting perfectly the material used as mould. Equipped with steel fibres as a part of the aggregate the self-compressing material can be disburdened from traditional rebars while providing high tensile strength. www.gtecz.com Wiring is an open source programming environment and electronics i/o board for exploring the electronic arts, tangible media. It is developed by Hernando Barragan and build on Processing. www.wiring.org.co