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- ********
Can someone offer a good, intelligent, opinion or definition on what formless might look like?
- 74LEO0
Emptiness
end of thread.
- CALLES0
sorry... this is what came to mind
- Jnr_Madison0
water.
- scarabin0
Main Entry: form·less
Pronunciation: \ˈfȯrm-ləs\
Function: adjective
Date: 15911 : having no regular form or shape
2 : lacking order or arrangement
3 : having no physical existence— form·less·ly adverb
— form·less·ness noun
- so it wouldn't look like much i guessscarabin
- though no form or shape, it indeed could have color.********
- MikeColdFusion0
go read the Tao Te Ching
- harlequino0
Was looking for Bruce Lee's "be formless like water" clip. Found this instead. This better.
- ismith0
Imagined space?
Are you trying to define formless strictly through Euclidean geometry? Perhaps at points of heightened energy in a Riemannian geometric system an object could approach formless as defined in Euclidean geometry while still "existing".
- can you explain a little more about formless in Euclidean geometry?********
- can you explain a little more about formless in Euclidean geometry?
- Horp0
A fart.
- doesnotexist0
something ever changing and random...like a graph of computer computations?
- I believe there is no such thing as random. Just a term used to easily explain that which we cannot or have not calculated.********
- nope random is real look it up- use integers.doesnotexist
- We may not be able to demonstrate random, but that doesn't mean that it is non-existant.ismith
- I believe there is no such thing as random. Just a term used to easily explain that which we cannot or have not calculated.
- jaylarson0
@harlequino
bruce lee be water clip:
www.jaylarsondesign.com/mp3s/MK...
Scrub up to 1:35- Watch "Little Buddha" Good explanation of FORM to an Architect.74LEO
- page not found********
- ********0
i had thought that people deal with form all the time in their respective design practices that imagining the opposite could be applied.
What also comes to mind is "form follows function"
- ismith0
Just curious, what's your major at SVA? I saw a lot of Processing on your site.
- ismith0
Symbols are what you want, by the way. They are formless until represented while possessing the same characteristics. Head over to Rizzoli and see if they have any books by Christian Normberd-Schulz, they should have a couple of his books (they published two) and those might have some inspiring words even if the rest seems like existential architecture jargon.
- none of Christian Normberd Schulz books turned up on Rizzoli********
- Ah shit two typos in one word; it's Norberg-Schulz. I'm surprised Rizzoli didn't have anything. Try with the right name? Sorry about that.ismith
- name? Sorry about that. There may be some previews here: http://books.google.…ismith
- Urban Center Books might have something too, but I didn't find any on their site... a lot is out of printismith
- Interesting that the formless symbol you mentioned is a reference to Hindu?********
- none of Christian Normberd Schulz books turned up on Rizzoli
- jaylarson0
^^^^^
sorry, here's the mp3
http://is.gd/6Hvzl
uses the clip from youtube clip.
- ukit0
- Amicus0
a black hole has only three independent physical properties: mass, charge, and angular momentum
therefore, with no length, width, height etc. they could be considered formless.
They are observable, however as the massive gravitational pull is enough to bend light around them.
