wow! this shit is spectacular!
As part of my first design for 4th year I have been slowly developing research and ideas which have exploded in a 'FUCK THE WORLD IS FUCKING MENTAL' kind of way. I will try to elaborate. So I was researching air.... to do this I built a wind tunnel, naturally. I conducted many experiments to try and establish what causes turbulence in an otherwise clean flow of air. This resulted in several interesting discoveries.
Firstly if you increase the velocity at which the air is travelling, you cause the air to twist and break apart, causing turbulence and dissipation.
secondly, if you sufficiently disrupt the path of the air it will eventually slow to such a rate that it no longer behaves as a clean layered system; but that seperates and loses structure, it becomes turbulent.
thirdly, it is capable of bunching and sending 'information' back along its path in a way that it gets used to obstacles.
more obstacles causes
also interestingly;
there is some sort of relay of information or memory at work. If one puts an obstacle in the path of a flow of air it will clash into the object, then of its own accord it will start to move around the outside of the object and leave a small area of 'buffer zone' between object and new chosen path.
air really has no structure, yet individual flows do not necessarily wish to converge, even when encouraged. Instead, one flow will attempt to find another path, a path of less resistence. I guess this proves that air has friction and that it even though it is invisible, it is sort of solid.
anyway, the most interesting behaviour i witnessed was the transition from clean [laminar] flow to turbulent flow. This being the object of my subsequent architectural developments and research. The behaviour at this transition was very surprising. The turbulence was disordered.... and then, suddenly ordered. It arranged itself without any environmental changes into a fibbonaci spiral.[PHOTO] Then disappeared. I thought this was interesting but didn't really grasp what I was seeing until I started to ask why.
This transition got me asking questions. order and disorder. These are quite black and white terms. but it is not possible to talk in these terms, is it? There must be a point, an instance, where it is neither, or it is both, but this cannot be possible, can it? It felt like a fundamental question, and i wanted to know the cause, and the behaviour of such a 'tipping point'
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