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Blobitecture (from blob architecture), blobism and blobismus are terms for a movement in architecture in which buildings have an organic, amoeba-shaped building form. [1] Though the term blob architecture was already in vogue in the mid-1990s, the word blobitecture first appeared in print in 2002, in William Safire 's "On Language" column in ...
His book, Folds, Bodies & Blobs: Collected Essays, [11] contains the republished essay from ANY magazine "Blobs, or Why Tectonics is Square and Topology is Groovy" [12] in which he coined the term "blob architecture" later to become "blobitecture" popularized in a New York Times Magazine article "On Language: Defenestration" by William Safire. [13]
Object storage (also known as object-based storage [1] or blob storage) is a computer data storage approach that manages data as "blobs" or "objects", as opposed to other storage architectures like file systems, which manage data as a file hierarchy, and block storage, which manages data as blocks within sectors and tracks. [2]
Octatube led the field in technical developments in the high-tech architecture era between 1980 and 1995 and in the succeeding freeform or “Blob” architecture period. In the first decade of Octatube's existence, the emphasis was on space frame and tent structures. This developed into the field of structural glazing.
The work of Future Systems can be classified within the British high-tech architects as either bionic architecture or amorphous, organic shapes sometimes referred to as "blobitecture". "Compared to his peers, Kaplicky was the avant-garde incarnate, relentlessly pursuing the new new thing, refusing to settle into some predictable, and ...
Head First is a series of introductory instructional books to many topics, published by O'Reilly Media.It stresses an unorthodox, visually intensive, reader-involving combination of puzzles, jokes, nonstandard design and layout, and an engaging, conversational style to immerse the reader in a given topic.
A reference model architecture is a canonical form, not a system design specification. The RCS reference model architecture combines real-time motion planning and control with high level task planning, problem solving, world modeling, recursive state estimation, tactile and visual image processing, and acoustic signature analysis. In fact, the ...
Tom Shiran is the founder of the Apache Drill Project. [5] It was designated an Apache Software Foundation top-level project in December 2016. [6] Drill supports a variety of NoSQL databases and file systems, including Alluxio, HBase, MongoDB, MapR-DB, HDFS, MapR-FS, Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, Swift, NAS and local ...