CuriOdyssey is exploring nine visual patterns found in nature in a series of blog posts and in our upcoming new exhibit, THE NATURE OF PATTERNS. The patterns we will delve into are:
1. Symmetries (mirror & radial)
2. Fractals (branching)
3. Spirals
4. Flow and chaos
5. Waves and dunes
6. Bubbles and foam
7. Arrays and tiling (tessellations)
8. Cracks
9. Spots & stripes
These beautiful patterns are seen throughout the natural world, from atomic to the astronomical scale.
Philip Ball's book, "Patterns in Nature" was a source of inspiration. We recommend it to discover more about nature's incredible patterns.
Describe how golden ratio is used in making of finest structures. It present three paradigmatic case studies where Golden Mean rectangles allegedly apply in architecture: (i) The Parthenon in Athens; (ii) The United Nations Secretariat Building in New York City; and (iii) The Great Pyramid of Giza.
Maths in Art and Architecture Why Maths? Comenius projectGosia Garkowska
THIS EBOOK WAS PREPARED
AS A PART OF THE COMENIUS PROJECT
WHY MATHS?
by the students and the teachers from:
BERKENBOOM HUMANIORA BOVENBOUW, IN SINT-NIKLAAS ( BELGIUM)
EUREKA SECONDARY SCHOOL IN KELLS (IRELAND)
LICEO CLASSICO STATALE CRISTOFORO COLOMBO IN GENOA (ITALY)
GIMNAZJUM IM. ANNY WAZÓWNY IN GOLUB-DOBRZYŃ (POLAND)
ESCOLA SECUNDARIA COM 3.º CICLO D. MANUEL I IN BEJA (PORTUGAL)
IES ÁLVAREZ CUBERO IN PRIEGO DE CÓRDOBA (SPAIN)
The golden ratio is about 1.618, and represented by the Greek letter phi.
The golden ratio is sometimes called the "divine proportion," because of its frequency in the natural world.
CuriOdyssey is exploring nine visual patterns found in nature in a series of blog posts and in our upcoming new exhibit, THE NATURE OF PATTERNS. The patterns we will delve into are:
1. Symmetries (mirror & radial)
2. Fractals (branching)
3. Spirals
4. Flow and chaos
5. Waves and dunes
6. Bubbles and foam
7. Arrays and tiling (tessellations)
8. Cracks
9. Spots & stripes
These beautiful patterns are seen throughout the natural world, from atomic to the astronomical scale.
Philip Ball's book, "Patterns in Nature" was a source of inspiration. We recommend it to discover more about nature's incredible patterns.
Describe how golden ratio is used in making of finest structures. It present three paradigmatic case studies where Golden Mean rectangles allegedly apply in architecture: (i) The Parthenon in Athens; (ii) The United Nations Secretariat Building in New York City; and (iii) The Great Pyramid of Giza.
Maths in Art and Architecture Why Maths? Comenius projectGosia Garkowska
THIS EBOOK WAS PREPARED
AS A PART OF THE COMENIUS PROJECT
WHY MATHS?
by the students and the teachers from:
BERKENBOOM HUMANIORA BOVENBOUW, IN SINT-NIKLAAS ( BELGIUM)
EUREKA SECONDARY SCHOOL IN KELLS (IRELAND)
LICEO CLASSICO STATALE CRISTOFORO COLOMBO IN GENOA (ITALY)
GIMNAZJUM IM. ANNY WAZÓWNY IN GOLUB-DOBRZYŃ (POLAND)
ESCOLA SECUNDARIA COM 3.º CICLO D. MANUEL I IN BEJA (PORTUGAL)
IES ÁLVAREZ CUBERO IN PRIEGO DE CÓRDOBA (SPAIN)
The golden ratio is about 1.618, and represented by the Greek letter phi.
The golden ratio is sometimes called the "divine proportion," because of its frequency in the natural world.
Geometry in Nature - the DNA of Design for kitchens and bathrooms; art, paint...Mark Rosenhaus
The Golden Rectangle and Fibonacci numbers reveal the secret geometry of pleasing proportions found in nature. You will see the balance of forms behind the genius of Leonardo DaVinci and Frank Lloyd Wright. This program will energize your intuition in creating and selling eye-catching products and kitchen designs.
Learn How Da Vinci's Golden Proportions Create Beautiful DesignsMark Rosenhaus
Leonardo Da Vinci's use of the Golden Rectangle and Fibonacci Numbers reveal the secret geometry of pleasing proportions found in nature - plants, animals, our body - and applied to painting, sculpture, dance, architecture and kitchen design.
metamorphic architecture - guardiola house by architect peter eisenmann, which is yet to be built. how the architect relates timaeus theory of plato to the guardiola house is very interesting
i use notebooks to help me collate, collect and reorganise, and focus my ideas and findings. trying to keep it all in your head is difficult, visualising it onto paper like mindmaps, and notebooks helps reduce the cognitve load and find some clarity in the confusion. well it does for me.
ideas flourish, and i now tend to doodle more for characters and creativity visually not just written.
York presentation
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title
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There is an information overload, and as communication channels proliferate, problem solving complexity is only going to increase.
In other words, there’s more data out there in more forms and languages than ever before.
¢ Structuring information for clarity and easier understanding to acquire knowledge
¢ Which structure/visual maps are clearest/most innovation and creativity at communicating/organising this complexity within our modern culture, to be able to elicit information, perceive the info & initiate reflective praxis?
¢ Does allowing self to be visible aid or hinder the communication of this data?
¢ Using the internet to reach a large audience to collate these highly innovative/creative visuals to inform others for knowledge acquisition
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My map – language, communication, thinking
Using our innate ability to see—both with our eyes and our mind’s eye—gives us entirely
new ways to discover hidden ideas, develop those ideas intuitively, and then share those
ideas with other people in a way they are simply going to “get.” Dan Roam 10 ½ commandments of visual thinking.
We will view some of these of these ways that will creatively and innovatively help the learner / reader ‘get it’ as dan roam author of The back of the napkin sketch
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Pic – Berlo Communication
Added the 2nd message after the receiver as they decode it and it may be interpreted differently.
The receiver decodes and abstracts the knowledge contained in the message to support [her] own beliefs/attitudes. During abstraction not only is the message tweaked, decoded, and interpreted differently to the map designers own, the meaning will also.
‘what appealed to modernist thinkers was the belief that authors or designers could transmit fixed meanings through constructed forms […] a brave new world that would deliver radical messages through the authorship of form’ (Baines & Haslam, 2002, p.35).
This was the belief of structuralism, which doesn’t work within map design. Maps do not communicate knowledge, i.e. they do not transmit messages (information) with fixed meanings. They may ‘“contain” meaning put there by the cartographer’, but map users/readers ‘have pre-existing knowledge that is necessarily involved in the comprehension of the map’ (Montello, 2002, p.292).
‘the reader brings his or her own ideas & experiences to a message; language is defined by interpretation. In this way structuralism was itself dismantled or “deconstructed” (Baines & Haslam, 2002, p.36).
Maps stimulate and suggest meanings, ‘ideas & inferences by interacting with the prior beliefs’ of user/reader(s) to interpret from messages. Therefore I would like to append the decoded message column to Berlo’s model because the received message is not the same, fig 15. Meaning is interpreted differently, the structure, style, topic, element everything is identical but decoded within the beliefs/attitudes, experiences/wisdom & ideas of the user (Montello, 2002, p.296).
‘What something means to individuals is dependent on the discourses available to them’ (Richardson, L, 2005, p. 961)
When I interpret I go through ‘a decoding operation, which implies the implementation of a cognitive acquirement’ I have learnt particular ‘cultural codes’. These cultural codes can access the ‘stratum of secondary meanings, i.e. the level of the meaning of what is signified’ to understand as much of its meaning and purpose as possible (Bourdieu, 1979, p.2). The semiotician Ferdinand de Saussures explains this that ‘language is determined by culture’ and that ‘structuralism tells us that the link between words & their meaning is arbitrary; post structuralism adds that this link is culturally determined & ever changing’ (sharples, 1999, p69 – 70).
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Pic – Schram Communication
It is a circular continuation of communication. Thi
MacLeod, an advertising executive and popular blogger with a flair for the creative, gives his 26 tried-and-true tips for being truly creative. Each point illustrated by a cartoon drawn by the author himself.
If you've ever felt the draw to do something creative but just haven't been able to pull it together, you'll love this manifesto.
found: eagereyes.org
Enquiring Minds is...
a response to the challenges schools face in the task of preparing children for a future characterised by rapid social, technological and cultural change
a distinctive approach to teaching and learning that takes seriously the knowledge, ideas, interests and skills that students bring into schools
a set of principles to underpin relationships between adults and children in schools and classrooms, which see children taking increasing responsibility for determining the content and purpose of their learning
a set of print and digital tools to support teachers and school leaders to implement, adapt and explore Enquiring Minds approaches
a three-year programme of research testing these approaches, principles and resources in UK schools.
found here: http://www.enquiringminds.org.uk/our_research/reports_and_papers/position_papers/
this is an excellant set of tasks to make sure you develop, progress grow and break from the norm. you prob do some already but always good to try some of the others.
Blogviz is a flash driven visualization model for mapping the transmission and internal structure of top links across the blogosphere. It explores the idea of meme propagation by assuming a parallel with the spreading of most cited URLs in daily weblog entries.
Blogviz is currently a portrait of blogosphere’s topic activity during the first 64 days of 2005. Nevertheless, the model was developed to easily incorporate different timeframes. Blogviz will continue to expand in the future, to the possible point of including real-time data.
found here: http://www.blogviz.com/blogviz/
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
3. INCE earliest history, man has continued to develop his sense of proportion in the shaping of his world. With the development of mathematics (the measuring of objects and space), early design began the arrangement of objects in harmonious relationship to each other and the space they occupied.
11. To construct the Golden Mean take a one by one square, repeat it. Create a two by two square on one edge. Then the three by three, etc. The whole set follows what is called a Fibonacci series
12. Tracing out the natural curve creates the nautilus shell shape
13. In the Nautilus shell the ratio of each segment to the next is; 1.618:1 Again the golden Mean.
15. The spirals in this plant follow precisely the golden mean curve. This occurs because they are arranged at 360/1.618 degrees to each other
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19. Dynamic Symmetry In the twentieth century two people played primary roles in the revival of the golden section as a design element. One was Jay Hambridge, and author and art instructor, whose book, Elements of Dynamic Symmetry' was first published in 1920. The other was Le Corbusier, an authentic genius of twentieth century design, who developed our first clearly identifiable design system called the Modulor.
20. Fashion The golden mean gauge shows that the dominant landmarks are in the golden proportion
22. The four front teeth, from central incisor to premolar are the most significant part of the smile and they are in the Golden Proportion to each other.
23. When written freehand we tend to design letters so that the intersections are in the ratio of the Golden Mean. To a greater or lesser degree of accuracy. Using examples of your freehand typography designs estimate the ratio.
24. The size of the top loop is in proportion to the bottom loop.