Synaptic Landscape by Dan Farmer
Came across this last night while reading the current issue of AD. Ask me for the corresponding article. Seems uber-relevant to the principles of our studio. Kind of wish I would have found this sooner but it's only mid-review right?, still time to modify our projects.

This is another version of the combined surfaces from the previous post. Instead of the lattice structure, the amorphous shape is smooth and opaque, following the same cortical logic as all the earlier schemes. In addition, the glazed portions of the faceted structure further express the 'pivot' of the cortical path where the stimulus response carriers into the cerebellum structure. This begins to accomplish two things: One, it begins to describe the tiering of associations made through the layers of the cortex,; and two, it establishes the zone for the aggregation of the hotel program. In the end, the juxtaposition of the two surface types still runs as the central theme and acts to create the zones of interaction between the perceived and conceived aspects of consciousness.

Combined and Refined Surfaces

In these images there is an attempt to comined the two pieces of geometry refined from the earlier series of surfaces. The lattice structure attempts to define the transparency of the scheme woven through the solid yet reflective spine.

The next surface is generated with curves flowing in a horizontal network mimicking a more linear thalomacortical loop. This translated into the curves following the path which stimuli is received into the "olfactory" and visual cortex where the cognitive response is gated by the "thalamus" series of clusters and spring connections and finally making its way to the "cerebellum."

Neural System Skinning Iterations

In these renders I'm looking to give form to the neural system that I've been working on that uses a series of springs, clusters, curves and roving forces. The curves that generated the surface seen in these images are done in a vertical arrangement, connecting to the cubes that can be seen representing the different layers of a cognitive response to external stimuli.