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2008-03-09T14:40:00.000+02:00

Name: Stefanescu Dimitrie Andrei

Birth date: 03 July 1987

Studies:

Successfully finished C.N. I.L.Caragiale high school, profile math-informatics, specialization in informatics.

Currently studying architecture at UIAIM, Bucharest.

Languages:

English: very good (1990 – to date),

German: good (2000 – 2004; ZD exam),

French: acceptable,

Romanian: native speaker.

Recent activities:

2004 - present - Various freelance desing jobs (websites, posters, flyers, book-covers etc.) for various clients (IBM, iada, Curtea Veche Publishing, Green Hours etc.)

2003-2004 – I won a creativity scholarship offered by “Fundatia Principesa Margareta a Romaniei”. During this time I made the “Contrast” project – a multimedia presentation of contrasts from within Bucharest, and not only.

late 2004/February 2005 - started out the online magazine of art & design “Improved Mag”. Development is currently ceased due to lack of time and enthusiasm.

March 2005 – Designed the IADA 2005 (international conference) website and poster.

April 2005 – multimedia presentation for MIE (the Ministry for European Integration) regarding the European Spring Day, the values of the EU etc. I have received a diploma of excellence. Included on the attached cd.

June 2005 – won a bursary for the “Animotion” Workshop, Cluj-Napoca, organized by Altart.org @ the TIFF festival (Transylvania International Film Festival). www.altart.org

September 2005 – June 2006 – attended the Oracle Academy e-learning courses on database design and Oracle SQL.

October 2006 - Entered first (with the highest grade) at the Faculty of Architecture, UAUIM Bucharest

15 - 30 August 2007 - Attended "New View into The Cityscape Of World Heritage Site Riga" - a summer school in Architecture/Urbanism. I (working in an overall team of 4) developed a project for further development of Freedom Way, the main street in Riga.

2008 - Developed a plugin for Rhino for creating various parametrically-controlled shapes.

Skills:

Architectural drawing (portfolio available on request).

Computer software:
Flash – excellent. ; Dreamweaver – very good.

Adobe Photoshop – excellent. ; Processing; Rhinoceros and Rhinoscript;

Adobe Illustrator – good. ;

Programming languages:

Actionscript 2.0– good;

C++ - good; PHP - moderate; SQL – good; JavaScript – good; Java (Processing) – good.

Interests (in no order):

programming(code) in architecture, emergent systems, design, new media, digital art, web art, multimedia, internet technologies.

Blog: http://dimitrie.wordpress.com

moving out

2007-11-18T12:21:00.000+02:00

of the google empire to a cooler place (at least their themes are cooler)
www.improved.ro/blog/

Uite asa

2007-11-04T01:08:00.000+02:00

ar trebui sa arate macheta mea:numai ca nu arata asa

Other work

2007-10-28T03:30:00.000+02:00

This is not as recent, but it deserves to be up. Simple and classy. Much less rigid than company standards, yet satisfyingly matching their CAD "accuracy". wtf i'm full of bullshit at this time of night

My current school project

2007-10-28T01:19:00.000+02:00

Details to come.
For now just some haha pictures:What I'm actually doing here is creating the "unfolds" of the solids. Step by step...

9 x 12 cm 1h quick ad

2007-10-20T12:10:00.000+02:00

This was:

It got cropped (and the background got in(tro)verted):

No processing involved (bah) because time was much too short. And it could have been better. (I'm not liking it that much now).

http://www.xkcd.com/55/

2007-10-09T22:48:00.000+02:00

simply lovely. wunderbahr. spent two hours on this comic. I think I am somewhat late in noticing it but hehe. it gave several laughs already
don't now why i'm blogging this actually but ha it's funny.

Circle packing a book cover

2007-10-08T09:12:00.000+02:00

It's lame to work on familiy business, and even more to blog/brag about it, but I give you Romania's first ever (probably) computational book cover!
The process behind the graphics is circle packing. Algorithm bravely inspired by the description that this brilliant guy posted on the RhinoScript Wiki.
Oh, and some one had this idea to use sphere packing (which is essentially the same with circle packing only in 3d) in architecture.

Scriptin towards outerspace

2007-09-27T14:10:00.000+02:00

Double curvature surfaces, faceted:

Some easy scriptin did that:

Option Explicit

SurfaceFaceting()

Sub SurfaceFaceting()
Dim strSurf : strSurf = Rhino.GetObject("Select surface to facet", 8, True, True)
If IsNull(strSurf) Then Exit Sub

Dim intDetailLevel : intDetailLevel = Rhino.GetInteger("Detail level", 40, 2)
If IsNull(intDetailLevel) Then Exit Sub

Dim dbl

Dim uDomain : uDomain = Rhino.SurfaceDomain(strSurf, 0)
Dim uStep : uStep = (uDomain(1) - uDomain(0))/intDetailLevel

Dim vDomain : vDomain = Rhino.SurfaceDomain(strSurf, 1)
Dim vStep : vStep = (vDomain(1) - vDomain(0))/intDetailLevel

Dim u, v, strFrame, pt

Call Rhino.EnableRedraw(False)
For u = uDomain(0) To uDomain(1) Step uStep
For v = vDomain(0) To vDomain(1) Step vStep
pt = Rhino.EvaluateSurface(strSurf, Array(u,v))
strFrame = Rhino.SurfaceFrame(strSurf, Array(u,v))
Call Rhino.AddPlaneSurface(strFrame, 1, 1)
Next
Next
Call Rhino.EnableRedraw(True)

End Sub

Deedee is playin'

2007-09-22T18:14:00.000+02:00

deconstructing a sphere a la bruno zevi :) or not.

Present business

2007-09-17T15:52:00.000+02:00

Inspired by the very many, sjet and others I am now really working up on RhinoScript, in use with Rhino.

Well, because architecture isn't just what we are taught at school. And math is good.

Back from Riga

2007-08-30T16:06:00.000+03:00

Uh, oh, I'm back. Kinda wanting to go back.
Here are some photos of the folks at the summer school. Since the link to the flickr set is what all this post should be about, I do believe i should stop.

Off to Riga

2007-08-11T14:21:00.000+03:00

Tommorow at 12.55 I should be in Riga. Don't call me! roaming is expensive - emails are our friends.
I'm off to a summer school (second one in the list) in architecture (actually urban design). Hope I'll be able to post some photos and blog a bit about things happening there.

And while you get bored reading this, check these out now! Where's the world of photography coming to?

spherical harmonics part 2

2007-08-09T10:14:00.000+03:00

Ribbon effect obtained quite simple instead of i++ in the main for loop we now have i+=2 or i+=3

sphere harmonics

2007-08-08T01:39:00.000+03:00

sphere harmonics implemented in processing.
some screenshots (here's the complete list):

uber alles manifesto

2007-07-27T00:16:00.000+03:00

Ce-i porcaria asta?
Ma distreaza.
Ah, si sunt obligat sa mentionez faptu' ca tema era color. Eu am respectat tema. Si dungile alea negre da pa desenu' meu nu erau in tema. Poa' domnii care au manevrat desenu' meu au simtit ca lipsea ceva la compozitie :))
Facultatea asta ma deprima. Bine ca imi pun desenu pa' net.

ps:
For that specific category of architecture students and teachers, which seem to believe that math is just for calculating your 10% fee and that computers are used just to draw, I highly recommend these ad issues, which are happily missing from our library:
one
two
three
four
concrete architecture is dead, modernism is dead, face it.

birthday thing

2007-07-14T18:00:00.000+03:00

Birthday resolutions (things that are nice to say when starting new things):

I gotta get a job. asap. :)
gotta smoke less
gotta focus more on work
gotta do some regular sport exercises.
gotta focus on making a portfolio out of all those stupid p55 sketches i have lying around
gotta publish this on the 3rd of July
gotta study for exams

I forgot about this draft from a while ago. It's never too late. Also thanks for all the birthday treats i got from everybody :)

Sound Arcs, revisiting

2007-06-21T21:13:00.001+03:00

This video recording done with my cameraphone.
A nifty addition to the sketch - everything is inside a big sphere lighted with a spotlight, which gives us a very nice gradient to the background. Hack came off this processing discourse topic.

Windows application is here, Mac application is here. No sketch-in-a-browser for this one. The code is in the zip file.

Yep, and music credits - soma.fm presenting "Urchin" - not the 70's band google's throwing in its searches.

arcs and sound

2007-06-20T00:10:00.000+03:00

Simple yet effective:

A nice way of using lookup tables - tribute to toxi.
No applet for this one, nor for the DLA fractals toy - this one uses sound, and it's a big hassle getting the applet singed and then making opengl work properly in a browser; maybe in some distant future, i'll export the apps and upload them. Code available on request - there's not much to it, though :)
Oh, and exporting the video using Shiffman's moviemaker library.

Difusion Limited Aggregation

2007-06-15T00:54:00.000+03:00

Sau DLA pe scurt. Joaca buna in processing in loc sa invatam pentru geometrie sau rezistenta materialelor. Numa buni fractalii astia de testat toxiclibs - bune chestii, restpect.

More to come soon. M-am gandit si we shall react to sound. Nu cu chestiile astea, devin prea complicate geometric in prea putin timp. Nu-i asa ca arata bine daca le colorezi?

We give you: football!

2007-06-01T11:27:00.000+03:00

Don't you just love our Architecture School? Playing football with a dodecahedron. Shout-out to our teachers, for making this possible. We respect the way you respect us.

Filmed inside UAUIM, 4th floor, right around the corner.

Tema 6 la studiu' formei

2007-05-26T11:45:00.001+03:00

Esti in pana de idei?
Ai probleme existentiale legate de viata ta de pana acum?
Iei note mici si nu esti apreciat de profesori, desi esti un mic geniu?
Te simti nedreptatit?

Noi te ajutam! Am facut un programel special pentru a te ajuta pe tine. Tema 6 la studiul formei nu va mai fi o problema! In cateva minute vei avea o compozitie multumitoare si te poti apuca de treaba! Click AICI!

Corbusier si unitatile zburatoare

2007-05-11T00:07:00.000+03:00

Galeria 115, in a sa expozitie de arta digitala "ArtPartTwo", contine si urmatoarea lucrare, care place la noi:

Ce ne chinuim cu Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel, sau Foster? Unite d'habitation explodat in aer. Sau Corbusier drogat. Asta'i viitorul in arhitectura.

Blogu rupe

2007-05-10T00:09:00.000+03:00

Cica echipa de olimpiadele comunicarii din care fac parte are blog!
Las ca nu ma face blogu' pa mine. Blogu, ca mijloc de comunicare, te poate schimba pe tine ca individ: ajungi intr-un punct in care nu mai scrii tu in blog, blogul scrie in tine*.
Nu stiu din ce categorie face parte postu' asta. Votati voi pe 19 mai**.

*evident, ca orice afirmatie indrazneata, are multe puncte slabe si complet neverificate, foarte usor atacabile. Ea (afirmatia) se refera in principal la bloggari amatori, d'astia ca mine. Era sa cad (sau am cazut!) in tentatia de a scrie pe blog doar de dragul graficelor din google analytics.

**dap, reclama mascata, sau manipulare.

In inordine de idei,

2007-04-29T01:11:00.000+03:00

Iata si primul post despre arhitectura care apare pe uberblogul meu:
comic.
Hahaha, farsa! e la dragos pe blog!