TY - BOOK AU - Waters,John K. TI - Blobitecture: waveform architecture and digital design SN - 1592530001 U1 - 721.09045 22 PY - 2003///] CY - Gloucester, Massachusetts PB - Rockport Publishers KW - Organic architecture KW - Computer-aided design KW - BUEsh KW - ENGARC N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-181); Birth of the blob -- Blob's your uncle -- New tools of the trade -- a blob by any other name -- Biological thinking -- An utterance without a language -- The poster boy" for blobism -- Outside the beige box -- Nex generation N2 - "The Apple iMac and the New Beetle, Embryological House and the Experience Music Project, the Palm V and the Oh Chair - all these innovative, trend-setting designs have been identified with a computer-generated, digitally evolved genre of architecture and industrial design called blobitecture. Using the powerful computers and advanced 3-D animation software developed for movie special effects, the blobmeisters ER -