Simulation and Its Discontents.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (232 pages)
- Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life Series .
- Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Simulation and Its Discontents -- What Does Simulation Want? -- The View From the 1980s -- Design and Science at the Millennium -- New Ways of Knowing/New Ways of Forgetting -- Notes -- Sites of Simulation: Case Studies -- Outer Space and Undersea -- Becoming a Rover -- Intimate Sensing -- Buildings and Biology -- Keepers of the Geometry -- Performing the Protein Fold -- Notes -- About the Authors -- Index.
How the simulation and visualization technologies so pervasive in science, engineering, and design have changed our way of seeing the world.