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IAAC-Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
STIGMETRIC SYSTEMS by the Advanced Architecture Group
This project is an exploration of stigmetric systems and multi-agent based systems. Using a group of agents, which are often used to represent organically behaviored bodies in a larger “flock” (birds, bees, fish, etc.), the program randomly distributes these across different surfaces, spinning forces, and vectors with specific targets are applied to them.
What’s excellent about agent-based computational design is that it is a field that merges the seemingly arbitrary and random nature of the organic and the mechanized, calculated nature of computer software. Randomness fits well into computational design because in a simulation, random values can fill in the unimportant blanks and can be used the emphasize the algorithm over the results. In that way, we can enhance the seemingly arbitrary patterns in nature through very calculated, yet somewhat random, simulations.