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This is a 1.5 hour workshop. Together, we will make an online quilt that acts as a future archive for Maggie Wong’s artistic research course at School of the Art Institute, Chicago. We will collectively code as many webpages as there are participants. We’ll use HTML, CSS, Glitch, and g-sheets. After we are situated with Glitch, Maggie and I will give a series of prompts to guide our handmade web. Special thanks to Maggie Wong for the invitation and Emma Rae Norton for letting me adapt her workshop Hand Coding Round Robin. 1. Before the workshop begins, please make an account on Glitch. 2. All of the links to our Glitch pages can be found in this spreadsheet. Please keep this spreadsheet open for the entire workshop! 3. When you open a link in Glitch, click the SHOW button in the upper-L corner and press “Next to the Code”. This will allow you to see your web page update in real time.
4. This workshop will have 3 rounds.. At the beginning of each round, you will open a new link (in a new tab). At the end of each round, you will close your link (close the tab) and go back to the spreadsheet. Copy and paste the ‘story’ you’ve written from your free write. Pick a typeface using the HTML/CSS Cheat Sheet. 2. Create a header and format text size, font-style, and margin width. Respond to the story by adding three links inside the text. Links can be to any resource including: articles found through the Flaxman Library, JFAB collection items, art works from the AIC collection, or artists on IG. 4. Edit the color of the text and background. Think about a color that resonates with the subject matter and tone. Find quotes that resonate with the story and place them on an appropriate part of the page. Add orientation and extra style. Add a link to the page in an inventive fashion. For example, check out this block.
From aircraft and cars to industrial and consumer products, wind tunnels are crucial for testing the aerodynamics of various objects, allowing for improvements in safety, efficiency and performance. These large, hollow tubes create controlled wind conditions to study objects' behavior in airflow. Through sensors and visualization techniques, engineers gather data on aerodynamic forces like lift, drag and turbulence. Advances in wind tunnel design, alongside computational fluid dynamics, have significantly contributed to technological developments in aviation, automotive engineering and even architecture, helping engineers design safer and more efficient vehicles and structures. Humankind has always envied birds. We might pass on the worm-eating part, but their mastery of flight helped spark our yearnings to soar into the heavens. To varying degrees, people have realized the dream of flight. But 727s, missiles, space shuttles, ultra-fast race cars, speedboats, racing bicycles and even types of computer chips might've never been realized had it not been for one related technological development -- the wind tunnel. Wind tunnels are used by engineers to test the aerodynamics of many objects, from jet wings to car windshields.
Aerodynamics as a science studies the flow of air or gases around an object in motion. With a better understanding of the way air moves around (or through) objects, manufacturers can devise and create faster, safer, more reliable and more efficient products of all kinds. Wind tunnels, on the other hand, provide a controlled environment for this kind of testing. Wind tunnels are simply hollow tubes; at one end, they have powerful fans that create a flow of air inside the tunnel. Some tunnels are desktop-sized and good for testing only very small objects. Other tunnels are massive structures in which engineers test full-size aircraft and cars. Although the test materials (usually) remain stationary, rapid airflow inside the tunnel makes it seem as though objects are moving. Typically, there are sensors and instruments inside wind tunnels that give scientists hard data regarding an object's interaction with wind. And often, there are windows that let those same scientists observe experiments visually. With those data and observations, engineers grapple with variables of aerodynamics such as pressure, velocity, temperature and density.
They gauge lift, drag, shockwaves and other conditions that affect planes and other contraptions that speed through the wind. In addition, these tunnels can help engineers figure out how wind interacts with stationary objects, such as buildings and bridges, and find ways to make them stronger and safer. In short, many of our modern marvels are more advanced thanks to wind tunnels. But it was the dream of flight that first gave breath to these breezy machines. Next, you'll read how wind tunnels arrived on the scene and exactly how they work. Get a double-fisted grip on your hat first, though, because this is one subject that might blow you away. Leonardo da Vinci, for instance, sketched a so-called "ornithopter" in 1485. Yet our winged friends proved less than helpful when it came to revealing the secrets of flight. Numerous inventors fabricated bird-inspired machines, only to watch them flop around helplessly in the dirt. It became clear that in order for humans to fly, they needed a better understanding of the interplay between wings and winds.
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