Sunny Feeling – Tobias Lundkvist captures Giedre Dukauskaite alongside male model Jacques Naude in these sun-drenched images where lush nature meets minimal sophistication. Outfitted by Nike Felldin, Giedre sports ladylike silhouettes ranging from skin-baring swimwear to flirty dresses. Soft curls and demure makeup by beauty artist Gunnar Schendera complete her laid-back look.
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This sculptural and artistic Volna Table was created by Turkish design firm Nüvist. “It was very important to create soft and serene experience in the tangible and the visual sense for this type of table design. The new technologies and the modern materials were the main ingredients for the creation and these provide us to design an unbroken continious form. In this way, Volna Table has met both the functionality and a unique elegance look and it has been shaped like a wave and features an incessant flow.” Take a look!
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Nuvist is an architectural and design studio, was founded by Kursad Sekercioglu and Emrah Cetinkaya, based in Istanbul (Turkey) since 2006.
We believe that there is no specific rule to create or design something. Our approach and ambition is exchanging of ideas between the fields of architecture, art and the design, then integrating them in unique perspectives.
Multi directional approach enables us to transform our vision of design among the traditional and the modernist with the cutting edge technologies in digital and physical world.
Eventually research, investigation and combination experiments in the field of design process lead us to create and to enhance new spatial concepts, innovative forms and functional structures.
We love to share our passion of design with the world.
Empty Memory
Elegant Empty Memory USB memory sticks collection was created by Yoo-Kyung Shin and Hanhsi Chen for Logical Art. “What is the physical boundary of an electronic device? While function was detached from its form, the outline it needs to be or it supposed to be can be different. As flash drives was made extremely small, the Empty Memory was given a hollow space, implying the invisible technology.” The collection comes with two different designs – Structure and Transparency, both indicating that you can fill them up with your own memories! Structure comes with stainless finishing, white Rhodium plating and black Rhodium plating. Transparency comes with stainless brushed / mirror finishing, Rose Gold plating and black Rhodium plating. Both versions contains 4GB volume with high speed USB 2.0. Take a look!
Headphones “Pleat”
Molami is the brainchild of industrial designer Maria von Euler. And today we want to show you the Pleat: a headphone that complements the bone structure of the face – framing your look. “Pleat is an over-ear headphone encased in napa leather and designed to accentuate the lines of the face. It folds and rotates allowing for maximum wearability and safe storage. Pleat’s closed design incorporates noise isolation and its sound provides low-distortion, allowing you to focus on your music. The bass is deep and articulate, and the mids and highs are natural sounding and clear. These headphones are suitable for a multitude of musical genres.” You can buy the Pleat for €400. Have fun!
This luxury watch concept named “Ringen” was created by French designer Marc Tran. It was inspired by the perfect roundness of balls and automotive shapes. The watch is composed mostly of white gold, but the blue disc that represents the hours is made of brushed, anodized aluminum and adds a touch of youth to the overall design. A blue ball, representing 2 minutes, is moved along a horizontal progression of black slats. An additional blue ball orbits the face to displace seconds. Pretty creative watch concept! Take a look!
Guy Laramee from Canada creates increadible sculptures from old books. Rather the material for the art works are old dictionaries and encyclopedias. From these books Guy carves landscapes and plateau, and then paints them in natural colors. “My work, in 3D as well as in painting, originates from the very idea that ultimate knowledge could very well be an erosion instead of an accumulation. Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. They erode a bit more and they become hills. Then they flatten and become fields where apparently nothing is happening.” Enjoy!
The Italian car builder Faralli and Mazzanti (F&M) presented render of its first mid-engined supercar the F&M Evantra. Executed in an aggressive style, with opening of the door against the model resembles Batmobile. The Evantra (formerly dubbed Mugello) will be constructed from either composite materials or handcrafted aluminium (depending on customer preference), with the latter option available for personalisation. Power will derive from a 3.5-litre flat-six engine, which will be available in two guises; a naturally aspirated model with 392bhp, or a twin-turbocharged option developing 587bhp. At its most powerful, the Evantra will hit 62mph from standing in 3.7sec. Production of the Faralli and Mazzanti Evantra will be limited to five units per year, with first deliveries slated for mid-2012.
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity. The research required to solve mathematical problems can take years or even centuries of sustained inquiry. However, mathematical proofs are less formal and painstaking than proofs in mathematical logic. Since the pioneering work of Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932), David Hilbert (1862-1943), and others on axiomatic systems in the late 19th century, it has become customary to view mathematical research as establishing truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions. When those mathematical structures are good models of real phenomena, then mathematical reasoning often provides insight or predictions.
Through the use of abstraction and logical reasoning, mathematics developed from counting, calculation, measurement, and the systematic study of the shapes and motions of physical objects. Practical mathematics has been a human activity for as far back as written records exist. Rigorous arguments first appeared in Greek mathematics, most notably in Euclid’s Elements. Mathematics developed at a relatively slow pace until the Renaissance, when mathematical innovations interacting with new scientific discoveries led to a rapid increase in the rate of mathematical discovery that continues to the present day.
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) said, ‘The universe cannot be read until we have learned the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and the letters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which means it is humanly impossible to comprehend a single word. Without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth’. The mathematician Benjamin Peirce (1809-1880) called mathematics “the science that draws necessary conclusions”. David Hilbert said of mathematics: “We are not speaking here of arbitrariness in any sense. Mathematics is not like a game whose tasks are determined by arbitrarily stipulated rules. Rather, it is a conceptual system possessing internal necessity that can only be so and by no means otherwise.” Albert Einstein (1879-1955) stated that “as far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality”. More recently, Marcus du Sautoy has called mathematics ‘the Queen of Science…the main driving force behind scientific discovery’.
Mathematics is used throughout the world as an essential tool in many fields, including natural science, engineering, medicine, and the social sciences. Applied mathematics, the branch of mathematics concerned with application of mathematical knowledge to other fields, inspires and makes use of new mathematical discoveries and sometimes leads to the development of entirely new mathematical disciplines, such as statistics and game theory. Mathematicians also engage in pure mathematics, or mathematics for its own sake, without having any application in mind. There is no clear line separating pure and applied mathematics, and practical applications for what began as pure mathematics are often discovered.
In mathematics, particularly in dynamical systems, a bifurcation diagram shows the possible long-term values (equilibria/fixed points or periodic orbits) of a system as a function of a bifurcation parameter in the system. It is usual to represent stable solutions with a solid line and unstable solutions with a dotted line.
Contents
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1 Bifurcations in the 1D discrete dynamical systems
1.1 Logistic map
1.2 Real quadratic map
2 Symmetry breaking in bifurcation sets
3 See also
4 References
5 External links
[edit] Bifurcations in the 1D discrete dynamical systems
[edit] Logistic map
See also: Dynamical systems and List of chaotic maps
Bifurcation diagram of the logistic map
Animation showing the formation of bifurcation diagram.
Bifurcation diagram of the circle map. Black regions correspond to Arnold tongues.
An example is the bifurcation diagram of the logistic map:
x_{n+1}=rx_n(1-x_n). \,
The bifurcation parameter r is shown on the horizontal axis of the plot and the vertical axis shows the possible long-term population values of the logistic function. Only the stable solutions are shown here, there are many other unstable solutions which are not shown in this diagram.
The bifurcation diagram nicely shows the forking of the possible periods of stable orbits from 1 to 2 to 4 to 8 etc. Each of these bifurcation points is a period-doubling bifurcation. The ratio of the lengths of successive intervals between values of r for which bifurcation occurs converges to the first Feigenbaum constant.
[edit] Real quadratic map
See also: Complex quadratic polynomial
The map is x_{n+1}=x_n^2-c.
[edit] Symmetry breaking in bifurcation sets
Symmetry breaking in pitchfork bifurcation as the parameter epsilon is varied. epsilon = 0 is the case of symmetric pitchfork bifurcation.
In a dynamical system such as
\ddot {x} + f(x;\mu) + \epsilon g(x) = 0,
which is structurally stable when \mu \neq 0 , if a bifurcation diagram is plotted, treating μ as the bifurcation parameter, but for different values of ε, the case ε = 0 is the symmetric pitchfork bifurcation. When \epsilon \neq 0 , we say we have a pitchfork with broken symmetry. This is illustrated in the animation on the right.
[edit] See also
Bifurcation theory
Feigenbaum constants
Phase portrait
Skeleton of bifurcation diagram
At first glance, it may appear that these are photos of some snowy wonderland. But upon closer inspection you will see that these landscapes are made up of tropical foliage and surroundings. Netherlands-based photographer Maria Netsounski took these vibrant images using infrared technology; hence the name of this series, IR. Let these snowy pictures will create joyful mood for the upcoming holiday! Merry Christmas!
