Sensitive Flames at the Crystal Palace Concerts

The ` ` Palace of Discovery ' ' at the Paris Exposition of 1937

A Fuzzy Ontology for the Classification of Crowds at Concerts

The paper presents a fuzzy ontology for the classification of crowds according to existing theories from social sciences and bottom– up computational approaches. The behavior and dynamics of crowds can be studied as resulting from the behavior of huge numbers of individuals taking part to it and, even if theories on crowd behavior are still open issues for several disciplines, we refer to Elias...

Collective Motion of Moshers at Heavy Metal Concerts

Human collective behavior can vary from calm to panicked depending on social context. Using videos publicly available online, we study the highly energized collective motion of attendees at heavy metal concerts. We find these extreme social gatherings generate similarly extreme behaviors: a disordered gas-like state called a mosh pit and an ordered vortex-like state called a circle pit. Both ph...

Avatars at the Flying Palace Stereographic panoramas of Angkor Cambodia

EN) The paper documents the creation in 2004 of real-world stereographic panoramas at the UNESCO world heritage listed site Angkor, in Cambodia. The project builds upon the history of the panorama as a medium of virtual travel that has existed from the eighteenth century. The significance of the current project is the way in which real-world (as opposed to computer generated) stereographic pano...

The Palace Project

This paper seeks definitions aiding design methodologies for evolving virtual morphologies, by the examination of one such morphology in analogue architecture: The Topkapı Palace. 1 Background The interest that instigated this study lies in a project developed earlier this year, entitled “The Bridge Project” [01], a virtual 3D structure of free associative content derived from the internet, one...