From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Sep 29 1999 - 07:33:10 MDT
QueeneMUSE@aol.com writes:
> The only thing I am SURE of is that the shapes will have
> a heck of a lot more curves than they do now.
Right now we make things straight and orthogonal since it is so hard
to build otherwise; with nanofacture and especially when large
structures can be built by free-running nanosystems there is no need
to do that. So we will likely get much more curves and fractals.
> A planner would plan the
> "growth" of the buildings, why not whole cities. They could even be planned
> to grown over a certain time frame, as population increased.
I wonder how to program a graceful aging into the structure. Maybe
that will be a natural result as adaptive buildings adapt to their
environment and each other.
> I remember that island...
> Please send me a detailed private e-mail description of your waterfall city
> Anders and I'll be happy to do some sketches of it .....and perhaps who
> knows, even a seed may plant in my mind for a whole painting!! The jungle
> awaits....
I think most of the discussion was on this list, so it should be
*somewhere* in the archives. But I don't remember the subject line...
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