Harry's flight from Heathrow
Completely random pattern, with no periodic symmetry, the cover of an airline seat.
Approaching Taipei
Vegan snacks given to Harry as he left the aircraft, China Airlines
Tea at a place on the National Taiwan University campus
Courtesy of Professor Jer Ren Yang (PT Group member)
Logo of the National Taiwan University on the right
Gate with shelves for plants
Lovely wooden water feature, NTU
NTU also has a vegetable farm on campus
Large-leafed plants
Buildings in the distance, as we approach the area where Taipei 101 exists
Steel=framed buildings under construction
Taipei 101
Apples, at least objects of the right shape, ...
Newton would not want one of these to fall on his head
Professor Yang, with the twisted building in the background
Professor Yang, and Professor Young. Here, we met two Malaysian visitors, young ladies, who stopped us and explained that we could get a composite picture of the twisted building and Taipei 101 if we walked further. We then had a long conversation of how we had been in Taipei 101 during its construction, and the tuned damper
"Tao Zhu Yin Yuan" is a residential, luxury apartment building, a rare twisting building, inspired apparently by a DNA strand. One has to look carefully to note the double helix.
Another very tall building
Very tall building - notice the trusses and nodes at which the steel girders meet
Professor C H Young
Tao Zhu Yin Yuan uses the same, thermomechanically processed strong steel as Taipei 101
