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birds eye view…

Posted on October 30, 2010 by erica

The first day I arrive at the High Resolution Plant Phenomics Centre it is a glorious spring morning. It seems hard to believe that we have just lived through the last seven years of drought. Everywhere is green and even … Continue reading →

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growing pains…

Posted on October 10, 2010 by erica

In the next fifty years we must produce more food than we have consumed in the history of mankind. Dr Megan Clark, Chief Executive and CSIRO Board member, 2009. My project has taken a short but relevant diversion. While clumsily … Continue reading →

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n-people…

Posted on October 4, 2010 by erica

AN UNSPEAKABLE HORROR seized me. There was a darkness; then a dizzy, sickening sensation of sight that was not like seeing; I saw a Line that was no Line; Space that was not Space: I was myself, and not myself. … Continue reading →

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inside out…

Posted on September 28, 2010 by erica

I began using the Department’s Drishti software in 2006. As I learnt to control a 3D object in a virtual space I experienced a similar feeling to blowing or turning hot glass on a punty; I could see the object … Continue reading →

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trip the light…

Posted on September 19, 2010 by erica

‘I didn’t think, I experimented‘ The words of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923) whose discovery of radioactive waves and the process of x-ray revolutionised our understanding of the physical world. Where matter was previously solid, X-ray challenged the surface or appearance … Continue reading →

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3D or not 3D…

Posted on September 4, 2010 by erica

Recently on ABC TV they ran a 3 part series, Baroque!, with art critic Waldemar Januszczak. In the first episode he discusses Andrea Pozzo’s (1642-1709) anamorphic fresco on the flat ceiling of the Roman Jesuit Church of St. Ignazio. It … Continue reading →

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tank girl…

Posted on August 29, 2010 by erica

The Department of Applied Maths is situated in a group of buildings spanning Cockcroft and Oliphant at the back of the ANU, looking out toward the mountain range beyond Lake Burley Griffin. Beside Cockcroft stands the forty meter Heavy Ion … Continue reading →

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outn’about…

Posted on August 21, 2010 by erica

As part of Science Week, Alison Munro and I went on a tour of the CSIRO’s Entomology Division’s Australian National Insect Collection. Al and I share a passion for such collections. Al is currently a PhD candidate in the Textiles … Continue reading →

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Art forum…

Posted on August 21, 2010 by erica

On Wednesday this week I presented a public lecture about my project at the ANU School of Art. I thought this would be a good opportunity to explain my journey from Printmedia to Applied Maths, my relationship with the Department, … Continue reading →

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minute bodies…

Posted on July 31, 2010 by erica

Micrgraphia, by the English physicist Robert Hooke (1635-1703), is the first book on observations of the natural world through microscopic and telescopic lenses. Continue reading →

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