The neural string network: An interactive collaborative drawing ‘machine’

An interactive collaborative drawing ‘machine’ designed on the concept of a neural network, allowing participants to experience a shared creative process, using the principles of open-source and social networked communication through an analogue string system. The underlying concept of the String Neural Network is to introduce participants to the idea of collaborative-shared drawing practice, as a dispersed collective that alludes to Roland Barthes ‘The Death of the Author’ (Barthes 1967) whereby each participant plays an equal role as both viewer and artist. Played out like a surrealist ‘Exquisite Corpse’ game of consequences or as a piece of Haiku poetry, the drawing participants contribute marks, signs and signifiers to an open-content drawing, akin to the development of open-source software. The string network consists of five drawing table ‘nodes’ within a room/ studio space measuring eight by eight metres square. Each node is linked to the other four via pulleys and washing lines, making it possible to peg a sheet of A4 paper to a line and winch it across to any one of the other nodes. The network system uses 10 string connections between the five drawing tables, creating a pentagram within a pentagon neural network design. Representing the interconnected synapses and neurons of the brain, the role of each participant is that of cause and effect. A single instruction initiates a series of consequences that unfold in drawings, marks and patterns that are created whilst being hoisted simultaneously across the room in quick succession. The Neural String Network project was first set up in March 2012 to coincide with ‘DecodeRecode’, a telematic art project undertaken by students at MediaCityUK Salford University, as part of the centenary celebration of Alan Turing. Each participating student was given a single word drawn from the Turing theme, such as machine, brain, code and apple that were interpreted and communicated as a drawing by a collective consciousness

Constructive version of multi-line drawing machine

High-speed continuous drawing on drawing mills Requirements for quality billet, portages, lubrication, balancing of drums. Real opportunity to further enhance the productivity of the mill can be achieved with multi-line. Presented a radically new design drawing mill, problem solving performance. Main features of the new drawing machine is to use a counter-axial movement of the wire and the drawing die. The machine can be both single-and multiline. In the latter case it is easily combined with twinning machine

numerical investigation of wire clamp contact for a drawing machine

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Оборудование с системой электроконтактного нагрева для волочения сварочной вольфрамовой проволоки

Приведены технологические параметры разработанной установки в сопоставлении с характеристиками серийной отечественной и зарубежной установками для волочения с системой электроконтактного нагрева. Отличаются преимущества новой установки.Technological parameters of the new wire drawing machine are presented in comparison with characteristics of mass-produced domestic and foreign machines equipped with the electric-contact heating system. Advantages of the new machine are presented

Understanding the YouTube generation : how preschoolers process television and YouTube advertising

Preschool children are generally assumed to lack the skills to critically respond to advertising despite being exposed to a high number of advertising messages while watching videos on YouTube. However, research on how preschool children process YouTube advertising is scarce. This study conducts an experiment to examine how preschool children's (4-5 years old, N = 62) responses to video advertising (20-second toy commercial) vary between YouTube and television viewing. The results suggest that almost half of the children were able to distinguish advertising from regular media content, and almost 70% of the children could correctly identify that the video was advertising. No differences were found between the two media. Children were not skeptical toward the video advertisement. With regard to ad effects, the results show low brand and product recall, whereas aided recall was higher (around 40% of the children could correctly recognize the product and brand shown in the advertisement). These findings suggest that 4-5-year-old children already have a proper understanding of advertising, but lack a critical attitude. Furthermore, children's advertising literacy does not vary between YouTube and television advertising

Failure Analysis of Rolling Contact Bearing for Cold Drawing Machine Using Vibration Signal Processing

In rotating machineries, rolling contact bearings are commonly used. Their failure mostly causes down time in plant. In current work ball bearing chrome steel and phosphors bronze material is carried out defects are identified using FFT analyzer in frequency domain. Signal processing is done to simulate the vibration signal obtained from ball bearing. The simulation results are validated with experimental results

The mechanical properties of anisotropic polymers: Progress report no. 6

Part 1 General Developments The basic development work on the tensile creep apparatus was completed by March, 1968. A description of the latest 'heavy-duty' creep rig and two types of contraction extensometer, together with the relevant creep trials, was given in Progress Report No. 5. Since then two further 'heavy-duty' creep rigs have been assembled and tested and are now ready for use with rigid plastics. In addition, further trials of the double transducer contraction extensometer described in Report No. 5 have been carried out. These trials are described in part 2 of this report The trials were considered reasonably satisfactory and each of the three heavy-duty creep rigs has now been fitted with a device of this type in addition to the normal tensile extensometer. The polythene creep rig described in Progress Report No. 3 has been working satisfactorily for over a year and no further modifications have been made in the period under review. At the conclusion of the above-mentioned trials it was considered that the creep apparatus was unlikely to require any further major changes. A detailed report of all the apparatus has therefore been prepared with the intention of submitting it for publication to the Journal of Scientific Instruments. It is at present being examined at the Ministry of Technology. (CoA Memo. No. 158)

The roots of 4IR in architecture: a military drawing machine used for space perception in architecture

This paper analyses how architecture became a pioneer discipline in digital interactivity research. It describes how that pioneer research derives from a lineage of researchers whose work spans more than two decades beginning in the early fifties. Military funds enabled the creation of the first computer graphic interfaces that evolved into a - drawing machine", the first interactive CAD, that made possible the role of architecture as a pioneering discipline in interactivity research. It is expected to demonstrate that the same architecture that nowadays uses mainly interactive digital design was one of first disciplines to research interactivity addressing a gap in the study of the link between architecture and interactivity.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Form and Data - from linear Calculus to cybernetic Computation and Interaction

Digital architecture developed in the 1960s and, supported by CAAD the 1990s, has created the path towards an architecture produced by computer and architect in a mutual relationship. The evolution of architecture since the 1970s led to the beginning of the first digital turn in the 1990s, and subsequently to the emergence of new typologies of buildings, architects and design tools; atom-based, bit-based (virtual) [1], and cyber-physical as a combination of both. The paper provides an insight into historical foundations of CAAD insofar as it engages with complexity in mechanics, geometry, and space between the 1600s and 1950s. I will address a selection of principles discovered, and mechanisms invented before computer-aided-architectural-design; those include the typewriter, the Cartesian grid and a pre-cyber-physical system by Hermann von Helmholtz. The paper concludes with a summary and an outlook to the future of CAAD challenged by the variety of correlations of disparate data sets