http://www.illation.net/travelblog/2008/11/28/more-gaudi-observations/ Observations and meditations upon peripatetics Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:16:31 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.illation.net/travelblog/2008/11/28/more-gaudi-observations/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Terran Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:48:01 +0000 http://www.illation.net/travelblog/?p=250#comment-73 Yes, we did. We didn't have as much time there as we wanted, because we had to leave and meet our friends. But we got to see a chunk of it. It was neat. That's part of where my discussion of quadric surfaces came from. :-) Yes, we did. We didn’t have as much time there as we wanted, because we had to leave and meet our friends. But we got to see a chunk of it. It was neat. That’s part of where my discussion of quadric surfaces came from. :-)

]]> http://www.illation.net/travelblog/2008/11/28/more-gaudi-observations/comment-page-1/#comment-71 jklGoDuke Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:06:36 +0000 http://www.illation.net/travelblog/?p=250#comment-71 Did you go down into the museum in the basement of the Sagrada Familia? It shows some of Gaudi's design methods - how much of the natural parabolas and such come from the fact the he suspended kind of lose fishnet ... a series of interconnected thin chains ... and saw how they draped, and essentially turned it upside down and built it as towers. I dunno if that makes sense, but it was cool to see and helped us understand where his designs came from. Did you go down into the museum in the basement of the Sagrada Familia? It shows some of Gaudi’s design methods – how much of the natural parabolas and such come from the fact the he suspended kind of lose fishnet … a series of interconnected thin chains … and saw how they draped, and essentially turned it upside down and built it as towers. I dunno if that makes sense, but it was cool to see and helped us understand where his designs came from.

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