Design, pattern language and geometry

Middle East Peace Potential through Dynamics in Spherical Geometry (Part #7)

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The visualization gives focus to the possibilities of design in relation to pattern language and geometry. Design and pattern language have been a primary focus of Christopher Alexander in the quest for the qualities characteristic of an attractive place to be (A Pattern Language, 1977). This suggests the extension of "pattern language" to non-material domains, as experimentally elaborated separately (5-fold Pattern Language, 1984) as part of larger exercise (Patterns of Conceptual Integration, 1984) including a review of Patterns of N-foldness: Comparison of integrated multi-set concept schemes as forms of presentation (1980).

.In the light of Alexander's more recent work ((The Nature of Order: an essay on the art of building and the nature of the universe, 2003-4) he has stressed the geometrical aspects of order in a quest for a computational approach to "wholeness-extending" design (Harmony-Seeking Computations: a science of non-classical dynamics based on the progressive evolution of the larger whole, International Journal for Unconventional Computing (IJUC), 2009). Significantly he concludes that paper with the statement:

I hope the idea of harmony-seeking computation may then sit alongside other methods as a new tool in an armoury of well-founded computational techniques to be used when appropriate. It is likely to be appropriate whenever a computational task is defined more by issues of adaptation, health, wholeness, and wellness, with reference to the position some system in some still larger whole, or perhaps even by a desire for beauty, or life, or elegance. All these might one day play a key role in very general kinds of computation. Science, architecture, biology, ecology, physics, cosmology - and computation - may all be the better for it.

This approach is discussed separately (Harmony-Comprehension and Wholeness-Engendering: eliciting psychosocial transformational principles from design, 2010).

The question in relation to the design of any animation is what is the design which most fruitfully integrates disparate elements, whether visually or in terms of the rhythm and pace of its "story". The suggestion here is that a "design platform", such as offered by SVG, would enable many to experiment with different stories and to focus dispute on the implications of those stories as designs which could potentially embody greater elegance -- or recognize diff rent preferences in that respect.

As implied by the quest of Alexander, are there designs in three-dimensions which might embody a greater sense of harmony?

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