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Orimapping

Starting to put together a team to Orimap the park... The plan is to install a number of large scale origami sculptures to act as waymarkers along a section of the park. Each sculpture will (we hope) incorporate in some way the geometry of its surroundings - both natural geometry and man-made geometry reflected in the pure mathematics of a folded piece of paper.

The Sounds of Swingtime

Did you know that the swish of a golf club is a musical learning experience? A walk in the Necklace Park could be music to someone's ears.

Professor decodes life note by note

"Much as people thump a watermelon to test its ripeness, Stanford composer Jonathan Berger wants them to use sound in novel ways to figure out the world. So he put sound to the way professional golfers swing their clubs. The result: It's now possible for pros and duffers alike to improve their game by listening to their own strokes. In another experiment, runners, rowers and other athletes can "hear" how their bodies are performing -- from heart rates to stress levels -- while practicing. And Berger's sounds for digital images of microscopic cells can help doctors distinguish cancerous ones by the "music" they make."