Abstract Metal additive manufacturing technologies, such as powder bed fusion process, directed energy deposition (DED) sheet lamination etc., are one of promising flexible technologies due to direct fabrication characteristics a metallic freeform with three-dimensional shape from computer aided design data. DED processes can create an arbitrary on even and uneven substrates through line-by-lin...

This article deals with the discourse of cultural globalisation and related issues such as the global market and cultural industry, which emerged as recent seminal factors within the context of Iranian culture, art and artistic practice during the recent history of Iran. Moreover, it seeks to explore the inevitable issues drawn from the process of globalisation, namely the forces of standar...

The first obvious difference between machines and organisms is the fact that machines are constructed, whereas organisms grow. This fundamental difference means that the understanding organisms must be process-oriented. For example, it is impossible to convey an accurate picture of a cell by means of static drawings or by describing the cell in static forms. Cells, like all living systems, have...

This paper presents an approach to the reading of the architectural semantics of drawings. Topological constraints on objects are used to represent various types of groups where the groups produce repeating patterns. A process model of visual rhythm discovery is developed. Discovery of visual rhythms in an architectural facade is demonstrated.