MIT: "Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling"
Larry Sass, assistant professor of computation in the MIT Department of Architecture, is one of five architects featured in a major show this summer at the Museum of Modern Art titled "Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling," which focuses on the importance of prefabricated and sustainable housing.
Tesselion: Adaptive Quadrilateral Flat Panelization
From Wikipdedia:
A tessellation or tiling of the plane is a collection of plane figures that fills the plane with no overlaps and no gaps. One may also speak of tessellations of the parts of the plane or of other surfaces. Generalizations to higher dimensions are also possible. Tessellations frequently appeared in the art of M. C. Escher. Tessellations are seen throughout art history, from ancient architecture to modern art.
Middle East Times: "Scientists to copy anicent Iraqi tablets":
A team of Italian scientists is exploring a rapid prototyping laser-scanning technique to reproduce 5,000-year-old Iraqi cuneiform tablets.Scientists with Pisa University's Assyriology Department and the Italian Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment conceived of the project dubbed "Duplication and Rebirth" to re-create replicas of the tablets dating from the Mesopotamian era.