Enzymind Labs

Engineering and constructing meso-scale redundant materials

How is it posssible to rationally design and make materials that have highly organized micro-structure?

Periodic and pseudo random structure occurs in many naturally formed materials, but not necessarily at the desired scale, or with a specific repeated unit or material. Non-periodic but deterministic structure is less common in non-living physical systems, but is the rule for living systems.

Doug Heiken and I took some video and still photos of forest land near the Blue River Resevoir, OR, that will be thinned, with the intention of re-photography after the thin. These are related notes and materials.

A 90 year old forest of mostly Douglas fir that was naturally established after fire about 90 years ago. This area will be thinned as part of the Bridge Thin timber sale, probably in late 2008 or 2009. The prescription is 17 foot "designation by description." Unit 82 and part of unit 80 are included in the polygon (see below).